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Thibaut Garcia: Aranjuez

Is 26-year-old Franco-Spanish guitarist Thibaut Garcia’s account of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez one of the finest ever recorded? Quite possibly....

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW20

TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake (Rouvali)

Like Oliver Twist, I’m left wanting more. Clearly this suite from Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece was part of a larger concert programme...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW20

STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung. Don Juan (Ticciati)

For his first Richard Strauss album, Robin Ticciati offers a welcome deviation from the standard. We’ve got two of the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW20

STRAUS Piano Concerto. Serenade

I guess I am not alone in being unaware of a piano concerto by Oscar Straus. It was written either...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20

SILVESTROV Symphony No 7. Piano Concertino (Lyndon-Gee)

Anyone wanting to explore the mature output of the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov could hardly do better than hear this...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW20

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concertos (Alban Gerhardt)

By accident or design this pairing arrives hard on the heels of Alina Ibragimova’s Shostakovich violin concertos for the same...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW20

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 (Jacobs)

Having given us a First and Sixth (2/19), René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra return to start filling in the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20

OSWALD Piano Concerto SAINT-SAENS Piano Concerto No 5 (van Steen)

Of the many short piano works by Henrique Oswald (1852-1931), Il neige is the best-known – and the one that...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20

MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 1-5 (Skride)

Baiba Skride ‘has this rare quality of discovering the music as we play’, says conductor Eivind Aadland. ‘I know that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 6-8 (Vashegyi)

In old age Haydn retained a soft spot for his ‘Times of Day’ trilogy, his first works for the Esterházy...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW20

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