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CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 2

Nelson Freire partners Chopin’s Second Concerto (his early recording of the First has already appeared – 11/14) with a solo...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2015

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Concerto Italiano. Violin Concerto No 2

Tully Potter’s booklet-notes accurately set the scene as far as the composition of non-operatic music in 19th-century Italy was concerned....

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2015

BUTTERWORTH A Shropshire Lad STEPHAN Music for 7 Instruments

This recording marks the centenary of the untimely death of Rudi Stephan, a composer of remarkable talent who was killed...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2015

BUSH Small Pieces for Orchestra

Geoffrey Bush (1920 98) was still a schoolboy at Lancing College (and already taking informal lessons with the composer John...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2015

BRAHMS Piano Concertos

‘Tzimon Barto has had such a bad press, in this country at least, one is drawn instinctively to his side.’...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2015

MUHLY Cello Concerto BLOCH Schelomo

Zuill Bailey opens this triptych with a superb account of Bloch’s masterly Schelomo, concentrated and powerful, the soloist rhapsodising in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2015

BERLIOZ Harold en Italie. La mort de Cléopâtre

These two works are impressively recorded. The sound is particularly full and spacious; even listening on ordinary stereo equipment, Berlioz’s...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 1-5 (Complete)

On the evidence of this set, the husband-and-wife team of Mari Kodama and Kent Nagano enjoy a keen musical rapport....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2015

JS BACH Violin Concertos

Formed in 1981, Capella Savaria has the distinction not only of being the first period orchestra in Hungary, but perhaps...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2015

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

No tempo direction for the first movements of Nos 1 3 and 6. By tradition it could be a fast...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2015

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