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Bloch/Bruch/Bunch Works for Violin & Orchestra
Charles Hazlewood | English Chamber Orchestra | Ittai Shapira
The 24-year-old Israeli violinist, Ittai Shapira, here makes an impressive recording debut. His technique is immaculate, and his control of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2000
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1; Serenade
Alexandre da Costa | Bienne Symphony Orchestra | Gilad Karni | Thomas Rösner
Max Bruch had an extraordinary career. Born in 1838, he lived until 1920. He wrote his most famous work, the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2010
BRUCH; PRICE Violin Concertos (Randall Goosby)
Philadelphia Orchestra | Randall Goosby | Yannick Nézet-Séguin
You can absolutely hear why Randall Goosby has been turning heads with his open-hearted, generous ‘school of Perlman’ delivery. There’s...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2023
BRUCH; SCHUMANN Violin Concertos (Niek Baar)
Christoph Poppen | German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Niek Baar
The Schumann doesn’t get played nearly enough – and, as he reveals in the booklet notes, it couldn’t be closer...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2024
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Wilhelm Backhaus
Carl Schuricht | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelm Backhaus
There are great piano records, and there are great piano records. One thinks of Horowitz toying with Czerny (RCA, 11/91),...
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
Bruch Symphony No. 2; Violin Concerto No. 3
Andreas Krecher | Gernot Schmalfuss | Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra
Bruch’s quiet rehabilitation continues apace with largely persuasive accounts of the Third Violin Concerto – Krecher’s solo line a romantically...
Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 7/1999
Bruch Orchestral Works
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Yuri Simonov | Yuzuko Horigome
The coupling of Bruch’s two most popular concertante violin works is surprisingly rare, and this welcome issue in Tring’s RPO...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1997
BRUCH Violin Concerto
Antje Weithaas | Hermann Baümer | North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
She did great things with Bruch’s first two violin concertos. Now Antje Weithaas, in her determination to complete the set,...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2017
BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1. Serenade. Romance
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Jack Liebeck | Martyn Brabbins
One couldn’t help wondering, when Jack Liebeck launched his exploration of Bruch’s violin works last year, why he began with...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2016
Cello Song
John Lenehan | Julian Lloyd Webber
As the title of this disc implies, all the pieces contained therein are rather in the same slowish-paced, lyrical vein,...
Reviewed in issue 10/1993
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