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HAYDN Violin Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 4

Haydn’s three authentic violin concertos fit ideally on a single disc and are an integral part of every aspiring fiddler’s arsenal....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2017

CHADWICK Symphonic Sketches ELGAR Enigma Variations

Let me urge immediate investigation of George Whitefield Chadwick’s Symphonic Sketches (1895-1904), four colourful tableaux of red-blooded vigour, fresh-faced charm...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2017

BRITTEN; HINDEMITH Violin Concertos

If the most common coupling for Britten’s Violin Concerto is more Britten – most obviously the Piano Concerto, as for Mark...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017

BRAHMS Symphony No 2. Variations on a Theme by Haydn (Saraste)

As ever with Brahms’s D major Symphony there’s the loaded question: are we talking a thoughtful work with occasional sunbeams reaching...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017

BORUP-JØRGENSEN Marin

Marin was both a beginning and an ending for the Danish composer Axel Borup-Jørgensen, who put so much of himself...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017

BIZET Carmen Suites. L'Arlésienne Suites

What could be more appropriate than a Spanish orchestra and conductor to add local colour to Ernest Guiraud’s suites arranged...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

BIGHAM Staffa

There’s a rhythmic trick at work in the first of Ned Bigham’s Archipelago Dances Set 1, a wily spacing of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017

BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra. Dance Suite

How many labels still offer such generous repertoire-driven selections in physical format? Some years after Chandos released his successful Bartók...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2017

AHO Concerto for Soprano Saxophone. Quintet

BIS’s long-term commitment to the music of Kalevi Aho (impressive even by the standards of this label) continues with a disc...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2017

PUCCINI La Bohème (Noseda)

Staged to mark the 120th anniversary of the 1896 premiere of La bohème at Turin’s old Teatro Regio (destroyed by...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017

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