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Neujahrskonzert 2024

Across the years the New Year’s Day concert from Vienna’s Musikverein has been conducted by the crème de la crème...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024

Metamorphosis

Edmund Finnis describes his Hymn (after Byrd) – an arrangement for string orchestra of the fourth movement of his First...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024

YSAŸE Violin Concerto in E minor. Poeme concertant (Philippe Graffin)

Two world premieres from Eugène Ysaÿe might seem like a bonanza, but that’s what we have here: a full-scale violin...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024

KALKBRENNER; TELLEFSEN Piano Concertos (Howard Shelley)

There are lovely moments in Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen’s two piano concertos. The First (1847 48), Jeremy Nicholas tells us...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 (A Jansons)

Back in September 1971 I attended a concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall by what was then the Leningrad Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Chauhan)

Like the preceding volume (8/23), this further exploration of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral works and operas is a delight for the audiophile....

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 04/2024

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben MAHLER Rückert-Lieder (Payare)

This somewhat unlikely concert-derived programme kicks off with an orchestral work whose discography stretches back to Willem Mengelberg’s pioneering New...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2024

SMETANA Má Vlast (Bychkov)

There are precious few orchestras in the world with a sound and an identity as distinctly their own as the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2024

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (de Vriend)

Jan Willem de Vriend has been busy in recent years recording Romantic orchestral masterpieces for Challenge Classics: lots of Beethoven...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 18 & 21 (Jonathan Fournel)

Howard Griffiths’s ‘Next Generation Mozart Soloists’ project has performed a valuable service in offering young musicians studio experience in central...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2024

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