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GADE Chamber music, Vol 4
Each issue of Ensemble MidtVest’s Gade series adds to the stylistic and taxonomical riddles surrounding the composer. While previous instalments...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018
SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 3, 5 & 8 (Gardner)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Edward Gardner
Edward Gardner and the orchestra of which he was formerly principal guest conductor move backwards through the 19th century, from...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2019
VIEUXTEMPS Viola Sonatas
He built his reputation on the violin: writing for it, playing it to a level that invited comparisons with Paganini....
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 06/2017
ADÈS Arcadiana DUTILLEUX Ainsi la nuit RAVEL String Quartet
Time was that Ravel’s String Quartet went with Debussy’s on disc the way Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto went with Bruch’s. The...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2016
GODARD Symphonies No 2. Symphonie gothique
David Reiland | Munich Radio Orchestra
Benjamin Godard’s symphonic works met with a mixed response during his lifetime and slipped from view, like so much of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016
FRANCK String Quartet CHAUSSON Chanson perpétuelle
Jonas Vitaud | Karine Deshayes | Quatuor Zaïde
The Quatuor Zaïde, who caused a bit of a stir last year with their recording of Haydn’s Op 50 Quartets...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2018
BERNSTEIN Serenade KORNGOLD Violin Concerto
Christian Vásquez | Het Gelders Orkest | Jirí Malát | Liza Ferschtman | Prague Symphony Orchestra
Liza Ferschtman’s Mendelssohn coupling (5/17) sounded astonishingly fresh but her mid-20th-century follow-up is something of a curate’s egg: two more...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2018
STANFORD Piano Concerto. Violin Concerto
Leon McCawley | Martin Yates | Royal Northern Sinfonia | Sergey Levitin
There’s no question what constitutes the main course here and what the hors d’oeuvres. Stanford’s D major Violin Concerto dates...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2018
Salisbury Meditation (John Challenger)
With the majority of our fine organs having been sadly silenced for so many months, it was heartening to see...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2021
Mertz Bardic Sounds
Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-56), born in Pressburg (now Bratislava), was one of the leading guitar virtuosos of the mid-nineteenth century...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1994
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