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MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 9 & 17 (Olga Pashchenko)

Following explorations of Beethoven and his contemporaries and duo piano music by Debussy (with Alexander Melnikov – Harmonia Mundi, 8/18),...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2021

MEHLDAU Variations on a Melancholy Theme

His music may not sound like Brahms, but the American jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has more in common with the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2021

MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Dudamel)

Is the Eighth such a problem piece as all that? Do its Latin and German, sacred and secular halves really...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2021

Haydn 2032, Vol. 10: Les heures du jour

Shortly after Haydn’s appointment as Esterházy vice-Kapellmeister, the Vivaldi-loving Prince Paul Anton suggested (ordered?) a series of four ‘quartets’ depicting...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2021

HANDEL Organ Concertos Opp 4 & 7 (Jeremy Joseph)

Handel organ concertos may not be what you associate with the gilded fittings of the Vienna Musikverein, though apparently performances...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2021

MUHLY Shrink GLASS String Quartet No 3 (Pekka Kuusisto)

Nico Muhly and Philip Glass go back a long way. There’s a scene in Scott Hicks’s 2007 documentary on Philip...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2021

GERSHWIN; RAVEL Piano Concertos (Pascal Rogé)

This Oehms two-disc set from the pianist Pascal Rogé, who turned 70 this spring, combines the Ravel G major and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2021

Nicola Benedetti: Baroque

What a difference a decade makes. Over recent years I’ve become so used to Nicola Benedetti’s concerto releases covering repertoire...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2021

FAGERLUND Nomade. WaterAtlas

We’ll get to the cello concerto later because the main event here is Water Atlas, the final part of Sebastian...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2021

Blaž Šparovec: Clarinet Concertos; Joséphine Olech: Flute Concertos

One of the recent developments in the history of the Carl Nielsen International Music Competition is that the winners of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2021

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