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NORDAL Choralis

Jón Nordal (b1926) was an acolyte of Paul Hindemith, whose visit to Darmstadt in 1957 silenced him for nearly a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16

MENDELSSOHN; SCHUMANN Violin Concertos

Perhaps we shouldn’t enquire too deeply into the reasons for the sudden blossoming of Schumann’s Violin Concerto as a repertoire...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW16

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 2 MOZART Piano Concerto No 21

Lars Vogt here swaps the keyboard for the podium in a disc that showcases his erstwhile pupil Danae Dörken, still...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16

MELARTIN Traumgesicht. Marjatta.Music from The Blue Pearl

Seeking to identify the author of Traumgesicht (‘Dream Visage’), the innocent ear might guess early Delius or someone else under...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW16

MAHLER Symphony No 9

This isn’t at all the Mahler Ninth one might have expected from Barenboim – although maybe, just maybe, his profound...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW16

HAMBRAEUS; LENNERS Piano Concertos

Ortwin Stürmer is the pianist for whom Horațiu Rădulescu wrote much of his piano music, works of which Stürmer made...

Reviewed in issue AW16

GINASTERA Concerto per corde. Estudios sinfonicos

The Concerto for Strings (1965) and Glosses on Themes by Pablo Casals (heard here in its original string orchestra version...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16

FIELD Piano Concerto No 7. Irish Concerto

With this disc, Benjamin Frith finally completes his cycle of Field’s piano concertos. The Seventh Concerto was made back in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16

ROUSSEL Bacchus et Ariane DEBUSSY 6 Epigraphes antiques

Kazuki Yamada’s new album forms a tacit tribute to the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande’s founder Ernest Ansermet, since the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW16

STRAVINSKY Petrushka DEBUSSY La boîte à joujoux

Competition could scarcely be fiercer in Petrushka. Unlike Vladimir Jurowski’s recent offering, this one opts for the 1947 version. The...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16

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