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KENDLINGER Symphony No 1, 'Manipulation'

Little known in the UK, Matthias Georg Kendlinger (b1964) enjoys a significant profile in parts of Western and Central Europe...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2014

HAYDN; HUMMEL; NERUDA Trumpet Concertos

To release a disc of the three ‘standard’ and, let’s face it, only chromatic Classical-period trumpet concertos requires some kind...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2014

HANDEL Six Keyboard Concertos, Op 4 HWV289-94

For some of us, Handel’s Organ Concertos Opp 4 and 7 are among music’s greatest pleasures. What, though, do they...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014

GRAUPNER Orchestral Suites

Reviewing a recent CD containing among other things a suite by Christoph Graupner for recorder and strings (Dacapo, A/13), I...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2014

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No 2 GOSS Piano Concerto

The two bits of bread and butter in this musical sandwich are Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto and Franck’s Variations symphoniques....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 2. 3 Slavonic Dances

First, a minor glitch: it occurs at 2'52" into the D major Slavonic Dance (Op 46 No 6), where a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2014

CORELLI The Complete Concerti Grossi

Gli Incogniti and Amandine Beyer have made significant ripples on the Baroque orchestral scene with their flamboyant and refreshing style,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2014

PFITZNER Piano Concerto REGER Romantic Suite

‘A composition woven out of nerve fibres’ is how Busoni once described his Nocturne symphonique (1912 13) and, with its...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2014

BRAHMS Symphony No 4

Plenty to get excited about here, first and foremost the sheer energy of Skrowaczewski’s performance, or most of it; the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2014

Il Pergolese

This could have been so cheesy, couldn’t it? Pergolesi-based improvisations by a jazz singer, a jazz pianist, a classically trained...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2014

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