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SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos

Christian Tetzlaff may be the only front-ranking soloist to have recorded all Sibelius’s output for violin and orchestra but then...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2014

ROSSINI Overtures

This is a curious anthology. The performances of the two early overtures La scala di seta and Il Signor Bruschino...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue:

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherezade

One of the particular pleasures of this filmed concert is watching the avuncular maestro Yuri Temirkanov direct a group of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 3 TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1

Behzod Abduraimov was an unknown 18-year-old when he won the 2009 London International Piano Competition with a sensational performance of...

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PICKARD Gaia Symphony. Eden

John Pickard’s hour long Fourth Symphony, composed in stages between 1991 and 2003, is scored for brass band. An hour-long...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014

PANUFNIK Violin, Cello and Piano Concertos

This disc contains some of Panufnik’s most intriguing music. The three concertos come from a wide chronological span, the Piano...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014

OSWALD; NAPOLEÃO Piano Concertos

Allow me to introduce a couple of composers of whom not one in ten thousand, I guess, not even dedicated...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 18 & 19

In a sense the images on the front and back of the disc say it all: this is Mozart of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2014

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Chailly)

A 27-minute bonus feature finds Riccardo Chailly discussing his interpretation of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a useful guide to both the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2014

STANFORD; MILFORD Violin Concertos

Completed in August 1918 but mysteriously left in short score, Stanford’s Second Violin Concerto lasts just under half an hour...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014

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