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KLAMI; ENGLUND Violin Concertos

The Finnish violin concerto after Sibelius: Erkki Melartin’s looked like a winner but sank; Aarre Merikanto wrote four but the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017

DVOŘÁK Symphonic Variations. Slavonic Rhapsodies

Jakub Hrůša considers himself literally blessed to experience, love and transmit Dvořák’s work. The Czech conductor tells us so himself...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2017

21st Century Violin Concertos

Our century may be young, but several violin concertos have already staked a claim as major statements in the genre:...

Reviewed by David Allen in issue: 01/2017

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 1. Ballades

I don’t know how many recordings of Chopin’s E minor Concerto there are. The Deutsche Grammophon label alone has nearly...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2017

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Saraste)

This recording of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, taped during a live concert in 2010, is distinguished by Jukka-Pekka Saraste’s brisk, focused...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2017

BRUCH Violin Concerto

She did great things with Bruch’s first two violin concertos. Now Antje Weithaas, in her determination to complete the set,...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2017

BRUCH Violin Concerto No 2

There’s much to admire in Jack Liebeck’s patrician account of Bruch’s D minor Violin Concerto. His playing is virtually flawless...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1 LISZT Trois Odes Funebres

Zoltán Kocsis, that ‘giant of music’ (as Iván Fischer has called him), became Music Director of the Hungarian National Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Weil)

Bruno Weil’s initial basic tempo, held with conviction but not rigidity through the first movement’s vicissitudes, is crotchet=78: much less...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 7 (Harnoncourt)

The Vienna Philharmonic gave this concert a little over a year after Simon Rattle had recorded the nine symphonies for...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017

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