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HAYDN Symphonies Nos 98 & 103

Well over halfway through his cycle by now, Thomas Fey alights on two ‘London’ Symphonies, one from each of Haydn’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2014

MOZART Piano Concerto No 5 HAYDN Piano Concerto No 18

Alexander Tharaud dives vigorously into the piano’s unexpected entrance just a few bars into the orchestral ritornello of Mozart’s Jeunehomme...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014

HANDEL Piano Concertos Nos 13 - 16

Chronologically, these four concertos come between the first set of concertos published in 1738 as Op 4 (Nos 1 6)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014

GUINJOAN Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra

Born in 1931, Joan Guinjoan is one of Catalonia’s most distinguished composers, having been part of the establishment of what...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014

GOEBBELS Suite for Sampler and Orchestra

Yet a further outfit intent on ringing the changes, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra juxtaposes works by figures who are not...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014

GARCIA Auschwitz. In memoriam Earle Brown

Havana-born Orlando Jacinto García turns 60 this year, and this characteristically courageous issue from Toccata Classics allows us the opportunity...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014

FOULDS Saint Joan Suite. Puppet Ballet Suite

This may well be the most rewarding volume yet in Dutton’s hugely enterprising John Foulds series. Particularly striking here is...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014

DONATONI Orchestral Works

Discs by the Italian composer Franco Donatoni, who died in 2000, come along rarely enough that each one of them...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2014

CHIN Piano Concerto. Cello Concerto

Unsuk Chin is one of the best contemporary exponents of purely instrumental music drama, and these concertos provide absorbing listening....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5

Collectors who own the superlative set of the Brahms piano concertos which Nelson Freire made with Chailly and the Leipzig...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2014

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