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Daniel Hope: My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin

Daniel Hope, in his own words, ‘fell into Yehudi Menuhin’s lap as a baby of two’. His mother was the...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 04/2016

British Clarinet Concertos Vol 2

Britten did not complete his projected Clarinet Concerto for Benny Goodman, thanks to US customs seizing the manuscript of the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2016

Riccardo Chailly: Music - A Journey for Life. BEETHOVEN. MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos

There’s inevitably a slightly melancholy tinge to this pair of DVDs featuring Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, the orchestra...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016

WEINER Csongor and Tünde. Ballet

During the first half of the 20th century Leó Weiner was a bigwig in Hungarian musical life, especially as an...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2016

WEBER Complete Overtures

It might be easy to overlook this new CPO disc of all Weber’s overtures. But it would be a mistake...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016

SCHUBERT Death and the Maiden SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symophony

Following a debut disc pairing Tchaikovsky’s Serenade with Bartók’s Divertimento (1/15), this latest offering from the LSO’s elite string group...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 21

Rudolf Buchbinder offers the standard pairing of Mozart’s two most popular piano concertos: the stormy D minor (K466) and the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2016

MAHLER Symphony No 3

The Third was the first of Mahler’s symphonies to be recorded by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2016

SZYMANOWSKI Symphony No 2 LUTOSŁAWSKI Livre pour orchestre

A good deal of the impact of this excellent release is due to the splendidly accommodating acoustic of the new...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2016

KOCH Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Erland von Koch (1910-2009) was very prolific in a composing career lasting over eight decades. A number of his works...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2016

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