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ARBAN Fantasies on Verdi Operas

Wagner relates how, during his youthful stay in Paris, he kept body and soul together by arranging operatic melodies for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW17

Siècle - Leonard Elschenbroich

Leonard Elschenbroich’s burgeoning discography continues to defy convention. This time it is not the music itself that is unfamiliar but...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW17

TSONTAKIS Anasa. True Colors. Unforgettable

Here are three engagingly expressive recent concertos by George Tsontakis (b1951), each with an evocative title. According to the composer’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW17

SCHMIDT Symphony No 2 STRAUSS Festival Prelude

This is the second recording of Schmidt’s Second Symphony to come my way this year after Semyon Bychkov’s luxuriously upholstered account...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17

SAINT-SAËNS; SCHUMANN Cello Concertos

Fitzenhagen or Tchaikovsky unadulterated? There’s the rub with the Rococo Variations. The noted German cellist Wilhelm Fitzenhagen premiered the work...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW17

RUBBRA Sinfonia Concertante. Violin Concerto

What a treat to encounter Rubbra’s glorious Violin Concerto played by the work’s Budapest-born dedicatee Endre Wolf (1913-2011). This February...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW17

RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé. Le tombeau de Couperin

Since the announcement that Simon Rattle will take over as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, his Barbican concerts gave...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW17

PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos

Two competent and enjoyable but not world-beating performances here of two of Prokofiev’s most captivating scores. Matthew Trusler and Rudolf Koelman...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW17

PALMGREN Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5

Selim Palmgren (1878-1951) appeared in these pages far more frequently in days of yore than he does now. His star...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW17

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto. Symphony No 5

What kind of a violinist was Ferdinand David, for (and with) whom Mendelssohn composed his Violin Concerto? At a time when...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW17

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