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MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 14 & 21

Perform K449 as conceived with oboes and horns – not just for strings as Mozart also sanctioned – and the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Chailly)

Here we have something very special, and a good deal more than ‘just another Mahler Ninth’. ‘Just another Mahler Ninth’!...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015

LEIFS Elegies. Quintet

With this release – actually a reissue of a Smekkleysa disc from 2009 – BIS finally completes its survey of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

KABALEVSKY Cello Concerto PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata

Leonard Elschenbroich pulls together this unusual programme of Soviet fare with his own intelligent and provocative booklet-note. He portrays Dmitry...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2015

HAYDN; TOMASI; KAIPAINEN Trumpet Concertos

Pasi Pirinen is the Principal Trumpet for both the Helsinki Philharmonic and Avanti! Chamber orchestras, as well as a prize-winning...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

MOZART Oboe Concerto K314 HAYDN Sinfonia Concertante

One definition of Allegro aperto, the direction in the first movement of the Oboe Concerto, reads ‘an allegro with broad,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015

Simone Dinnerstein: Broadway-Lafayette

Broadway-Lafayette is a New York City subway station in Manhattan, so someone will have to explain to me its relevance...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2015

FALLA Noches en los jardines de Espana. El sombrero de tres picos

Having recorded the piano music of his fellow countrymen Soler and Granados (4/12), Luis Fernando Pérez now turns his attention...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2015

DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 4 & 8

Marcus Bosch is at his best in the lyrical second subject of the Fourth Symphony’s finale, which has something of...

Reviewed in issue AW2014

BROUWER; VILLA-LOBOS; KOSHKIN Guitar Concertos

For guitarist/composers such as these three, writing for guitar and orchestra is always a dialectical process. On the one hand,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2015

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