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HAYDN Cello Concertos

There are so very many recordings of Haydn’s two cello concertos, both recent and older, that any cellist who dares...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2016

HANDEL Water Music Suites

Long debunked is the charming story that the so-called Water Music restored Handel to favour with his one-time employer the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue:

DVOŘÁK Overtures

Here is a generally satisfying programme, though the ‘Nature’ component of ‘Nature, Life and Love’, In Nature’s Realm, isn’t the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016

DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto. Romance

It was an inspired idea to open this disc with Josef Suk’s wonderful Fantasy, a sort of free-form violin concerto:...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016

COPLAND Billy The Kid. Appalachian Spring. Rodeo

Andrew Litton’s recent recording of Copland’s Billy the Kid and Rodeo with the Colorado Symphony (BIS, 1/16) was notable for...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2016

BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1 LALO Symphonie espagnole

Renaud Capuçon – that silky smooth French violinist – has just turned 40, and this celebratory disc is a good...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2016

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 7. Wellington's Victory

Here is a fascinating journey back in time: as close a recreation as we can probably get, two centuries later,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6. Violin Concerto

Filmed at the 2015 Baden-Baden Easter Festival, this concert will mainly be of interest to followers of Isabelle Faust, whose...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016

BADINGS Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

With the possible exceptions of Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) and Louis Andriessen (b1939), 20th-century Dutch music remains a closed book for...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016

ELGAR; WALTON Cello Concertos

One of Steven Isserlis’s earliest triumphs in the recording studio was a wonderfully intuitive account of the Elgar Concerto with...

Reviewed in issue 03/2016

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