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BEETHOVEN Egmont Incidental Music. The Consecration of the House

It is something of an irony that Goethe conceived his five-act prose tragedy Egmont to include music but provided none,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2016

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 3 & 7. Piano Concerto No 4

Here is Beethoven, Viennese Beethoven, under a conductor who remained impervious to all fads and fashions, save those of the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2016

BARTÓK Divertimento GHEDINI Violin Concerto

This interesting programme offers a revealing glimpse at how the Baroque concerto grosso form, or something very like it, was...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016

JS BACH Keyboard Concertos BWVs1052 & 53. Violin Concertos – BWVs 1041&42

This is an unusual Bach coupling, but to give solo spotlights to both the founding members of Ausonia seems as...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2016

CPE BACH Cello Concertos

As a general rule it’s a bad idea to make sweeping generalisations in print, even if all your internal instincts...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016

Antonio Vaz Lemes: Sonata Brasileira

Here are four sonatas by four Brazilian composers whose careers span three generations. With one arguable exception, their work is...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016

Pleasures of the Imagination

Eighteenth-century harpsichord music by British composers seldom gets much attention compared to German and French ones and Scarlatti, so although...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2016

Jose Iturbi: The Victor & HMV Solo Recordings

During the 1940s, the Spanish pianist of Basque ancestry José Iturbi made no fewer than nine Hollywood films, usually playing...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2016

WEINBERG Solo Violin Sonatas SHOSTAKOVICH 3 Fantastic Dances

The sonata for solo string instrument is a genre Weinberg made more or less his own in the Soviet Union,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016

SCRIABIN Complete Etutdes

From the first prelude in B major to the last one in no designated key, the 90 miniatures on this...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2016

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