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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

FALLA El Amor brujo. Fanfare pour une fête. El sombrero de tres picos

‘It must be very simple in expression, as if Mozart were playing in Spain’, Enrique Mazzola tells his players during...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2017

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