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Hummel Violin Concerto
Howard Shelley | James Ehnes | London Mozart Players
A warm welcome for this latest disc of concertante works by Hummel, superbly played and recorded, particularly since three of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2004
Wagner;Pfitzner Violin Concertos
Cologne Radio Orchestra | Juraj Cizmarovic | Marcus Bosch
“Romantic Violin Concertos”: imperishable masterpieces by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Bruch come instantly to mind. But this CD offers quite...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2011
DVOŘÁK Symphony No 1 (Bosch)
Marcus Bosch | Nürnberg State Philharmonic Orchestra
Antonin Dvořák never heard his First Symphony. Submitted in 1865 for a competition in Leipzig, it disappeared shortly afterwards. A certain...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017
THALBERG Opera Fantasies
Sigismond Thalberg (1812 71) is routinely dismissed as an important composer for the piano. His music glitters and is certainly...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015
New Year’s Concert 2019
Christian Thielemann | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
It was surely only a matter of time before Christian Thielemann was invited to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019
WAGNER Symphony in C
Jun Märkl | Mid-German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig
Wagner’s would-be Beethovenian Symphony in C major is tolerably well known. Though a student work, the composer retained a soft...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2017
GOTTSCH Princess Yurievskaya (Alfonso)
The urge to compose is irresistible for many who are destined to make their livings in other vocations; among the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2021
Berwald Symphonies
London Symphony Orchestra | Sixten Ehrling
Given his individuality and accessibility, it remains puzzling that Berwald still lies on the edge rather than in the centre...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1992
Sterndale Bennett Chamber Works
Ilona Prunyi has already shown her sympathy with Sterndale Bennett's music on three Marco Polo discs of solo piano pieces...
Reviewed in issue 11/1994
Grieg Orchestral Music, Vol 3
Bjarte Engeset | Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Grieg completed his youthful Symphony in a hurry in 1863/64, but declaring that “it belongs to a bygone Schumann-period in...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2007
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