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SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

The striking originality of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2017

RAVEL Piano Concertos FALLA Noches en los jardines de España

Martha Argerich’s Ravel G major was for so long a reference recording that it’s easy to forget how idiosyncratic it...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2017

NIELSEN Flute Concerto. Clarinet Concerto. Aladdin Suite

Paavo Järvi presides over a splendidly stylish and invigorating Nielsen anthology featuring the Philharmonia at the top of its game...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2017

NENOV Piano Concerto. Ballade No 2

Before tackling the music and recording, I should like to express my admiration for Ivo Varbanov, the Bulgarian London-based pianist...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2017

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

Two litmus tests in any performance of Mendelssohn’s glorious Scottish Symphony are the Adagio third movement and the final peroration....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017

LEGRAND Piano Concerto. Cello Concerto

I have long adored the songs and admired the talent of Michel Legrand, inflected as it is with a jazzer’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2016

KOŽELUCH Symphonies Vol 1

Naxos’s ‘Czech Masters in Vienna’ series turns to Leopold Koželuch (1747-1818), a composer in whom some interest has been shown...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2017

DH JOHNSON Orchestral Music Vol 1

As the high opus numbers of these three works, all written between 2009 and 2016, betray, David Hackbridge Johnson (b1963)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2017

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 53, 64 & 96

Carlos Kalmar chooses three named symphonies for a Haydn disc with the Portland-based orchestra of which he has been music...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2017

HAYDN Keyboard Concertos – HobXVIII:3, :4, :7 & :11

What could be the possible reason for recording Haydn’s keyboard concertos on an accordion? In this case, the easy answer...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2017

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