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DVORÁK; KHACHATURIAN Violin Concertos (Rachel Barton Pine)

I wasn’t expecting Rachel Barton Pine to be such a persuasive advocate for Khachaturian’s much-maligned Violin Concerto. She’s not a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020

DEBUSSY Nocturnes (Elder)

Mark Elder and the Hallé’s Debussy recordings for the orchestra’s own label have, until now, been centred round Colin Matthews’s...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2020

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Rattle)

What a wonderful symphony this is, its mood not unlike that of some blustery day in the high hills when...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2020

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1 (Lars Vogt)

For decades it’s been fashionable for pianists, or pianist-conductors, to lead the concertos of Mozart and Beethoven from the keyboard,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Janowski)

Beethoven represents the greatest challenge, said Marek Janowski in a recent interview: quite a claim for an 80-year-old conductor with...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Egmont. The Creatures of Prometheus (Segerstam. Lee)

The ‘Beethoven 2020’ compilers at DG have made a left-field choice in their inclusion of the Egmont music from Claudio...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Septet (Leonidas Kavakos)

These recordings of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Septet were made in 2019 during Leonidas Kavakos’s tenure as artist-in-residence with the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020

BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra (Dausgaard)

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard launch a series coupling contrasting works by Bartók, this first...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020

JS BACH Violin Concertos (Kati Debretzeni)

Kati Debretzeni has been a respected leader of ensembles such as the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestra of the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2020

CPE BACH Oboe Concertos (Xenia Löffler)

The oboe concertos – CPE Bach at his most amenable – get prime billing on the jewel case. Yet it’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2020

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