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MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 3 - 5

In the booklet accompanying this issue, Arabella Steinbacher writes: ‘These concertos have been with me since early childhood…I feel they...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2014

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

The last version of Mendelssohn’s First that I listened to featured Thomas Fey and the Heidelberg Symphony (Hänssler), a rugged,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music

Riccardo Chailly, the Gewandhaus Orchestra and his soloist, Israeli pianist Saleem Ashkar, give us an ideal, new-minted view of Mendelssohn....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014

Neeme Järvi conducts Massenet

Admirers of Neeme Järvi’s recordings of the Tchaikovsky ballets with the Bergen Philharmonic will know that he is just the...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2014

MAHLER Symphony No 6

We have an inbuilt expectation these days for precisioned, sonically impressive Mahler – and this Sixth is no exception. But...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2014

HONEGGER Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

These two fine Honegger symphonies make for an invigorating coupling, the gritty and muscular Second for strings and trumpet from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014

GOUVY Cantate, Oeuvres symphoniques et Musique de chambre

‘Nobody cares what I have done; in Paris people think only of themselves and of the present…More and more I...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2014

KALINNIKOV Symphony No 1 GLAZUNOV Symphony No 5

Now holding posts in Tokyo, Geneva and Monte Carlo, 30 year-old Kazuki Yamada has perhaps been too busy to return...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014

LEIGHTON Piano Cncerto No 1 GIPPS Piano Concerto

More gaps in the catalogue valiantly plugged by Cameo Classics. Angela Brownridge has already proved an assiduous champion of her...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014

Orchestral Masterworks from Switzerland

The title’s stretching it a bit with the inclusion of Ernst Widmer, who became a naturalised Brazilian at the age...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014

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