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BEETHOVEN Symphony No 8. Violin Concerto

No sooner had I filed my review of Thomas Gould’s Riga version of the Beethoven Violin Concerto (see below) than...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3

It is rare to hear celebrated pianists playing instruments from an earlier age, which is why these performances by Martha...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015

BARBER; BARTÓK Piano Concertos

Although many jazz pianists unquestionably play classical music well, do their performances stack up to those of world-class, full-time classical...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2015

ARNOLD Symphony No 7. Philharmonic Concerto

This useful anthology brings together three of Malcolm Arnold’s most powerfully distinctive and deeply personal works. All date from the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015

Blandine Staskiewicz: Tempesta

Never judge a book by its cover. Mind you, the faux tattoos on Blandine Staskiewicz’s bare shoulders proclaiming ‘Tempesta –...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015

Dagmar Pecková: Sinful Women

In addition to her operatic and concert career – Mahler a particular speciality – Dagmar Pecková has created a number...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015

Christiane Karg: Scene!

That indefatigable one-man libretto factory Pietro Metastasio is the linking thread in these scenas of damsels in extremis, complemented in Ch’io...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015

Ann Hallenberg: Agrippina

This disc’s title inevitably evokes the stop-at-nothing schemer of Handel’s satirical Venetian opera. But as Ann Hallenberg and her musicologist...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015

WUORINEN Brokeback Mountain

Few short stories have become so quickly and so deeply embedded in the American consciousness as Annie Proulx’s 1997 Brokeback...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2015

WEBER Silvana

There can’t be many operas in which the heroine sings not a word. Auber’s La Muette de Portici has its...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015

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