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TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Tchaikovsky’s much-maligned Second Concerto is still a relative rarity so any new recording is an event, especially with a line-up...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2014

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade

Since refurbishing the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2011, Peter Oundjian has introduced nine new principals, so Sheherazade is as good...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: AW2014

NORDHEIM The Hunting of the Snark. The Return of the Snark

If recording activity is anything to go by, the music of Arne Nordheim (1931-2010) is not suffering the neglect of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2014

MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 1 - 5

An unequal collaboration, Bruno Weil only a presence, Lena Neudauer potentially a soloist of imagination and resource held back by...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW2014

MENDELSSOHN Music for Piano and Orchestra

Oleg Marshev is to Danacord what Michael Ponti was to Vox, having given us such scintillating concerto obscurities as Winding’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring MAHLER Symphony No 1

The Australian World Orchestra is effectively a gathering of Aussie clans – a grand reunion of native musicians based both...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2014

LARSSON Symphony No 1

At the start of his otherwise commendable booklet essay, Christoph Schlüren lists all the dominant Swedish composers of Lars-Erik Larsson’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2014

R HARRIS Symphony No 4. Cello Concerto

New Zealander Ross Harris (b1945) studied with Douglas Lilburn and taught at the Victoria University in Wellington. Since 2004 he...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1 GRIEG Piano Concerto

What immediately strikes you about this recording is not the execution of the familiar opening pages of the Tchaikovsky but...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014

FOSKETT Dinosaur

As Christopher Austin points out, an assessment of Ben Foskett’s composing this past decade needs to take into account his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2014

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