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CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 1

I’ve lost count of Argerich’s many recordings of the First Chopin Concerto but what remains extraordinary is how each one...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015

BRAHMS Symphony No 4. Hungarian Dances

From the first, there has been debate over how Brahms’s tragic Fourth Symphony is best performed. The logically minded Hans...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2015

JS BACH Prelude and Fugue 'St Anne' BRAHMS Piano Quartet No 1

The engineered sound offers a realistic perspective from a seat at the back of the stalls in the Warsaw Philharmonic’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015

BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique

This concert recording of the ‘Episode in the Life of an Artist’ and its lesser-known sequel has repeats in the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2015

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 2 MOZART Symphony No 41

Now 91, Sir Neville Marriner was a mere stripling of 89 when this concert recording was made, during the Poznan´...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2015

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 5. Coriolan Overture

Klaus Tennstedt’s reading of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture is typically measured and full-bodied, freighted with meaning. And the recording, made live...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2015

JS BACH Violin Concertos

In all likelihood, Bach composed 20 or more violin concertos, mainly at Weimar and Cöthen, and yet tantalisingly we are...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2015

SCARLATTI Con eco d'amore

Elizabeth Watts has chosen to follow her lauded Bach and Mozart recitals not with Handel – the obvious lure –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2015

BRAHMS String Quartets Nos 1 & 3

From the quick vibrato of the opening of the First Quartet to the viola’s pure tone that leads to the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2015

VIVALDI The Four Seasons. Bassoon Concertos

To celebrate its 21st birthday, one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Vivaldi and his contemporaries has...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2015

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