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MOZART Violin Concertos, Vol 2 (Francesca Dego)

The traditional view is that Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto, K216, represents a huge leap forward in inventiveness after the more...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 24 & 17 (Éric Le Sage)

For his first recording of Mozart concertos, Éric Le Sage, in the company of the Gävle Symphony Orchestra and oboist/conductor...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2022

GUERRA-PEIXE Symphonic Suites No. 1 and 2. Roda de Amigos

César Guerra-Peixe (1914-93) was, as well as a prolific composer, a great promoter of Brazilian folk music, and carried out...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022

CORIGLIANO 'To Music'

John Corigliano is not, as he would admit, a natural symphonist. With so many great symphonies already penned by others,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2022

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 2 DEAN Testament (Jurowski)

In Vladimir Jurowski’s hands, the first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No 2 is a study in contrasts. He paces the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2022

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos (Corti; Suzuki)

Having completed distinctive and imaginative recordings of Bach’s seven solo harpsichord concertos and Triple Concerto (7/20, 4/21), Francesco Corti moves...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2022

ARNELL Orchestral Works

A pupil of Ireland at the RCM (1935-39), Richard Arnell was shaped musically by those inter-war influences of post-Romanticism and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2022

Jonathan Tetelman: Arias

Here’s the most exciting tenor discovery to come my way since the appearance of Jonas Kaufmann on the big international...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2022

Steven Schick: A Hard Rain

Music for percussion is more abundant than one might assume. Beyond the confines of the symphony orchestra lies a vast...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2022

PRICE 'Scenes in Tin Can Alley' Piano Music (Josh Tatsuo Cullen)

Little can be added to Andrew Farach-Colton’s detailed article in the November 2021 issue about the the life and art...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2022

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