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Ning Feng: Virtuosismo

My reaction to this release is more or less the same as to the one I reviewed three years ago...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2019

MONTERO; RAVEL Piano Concertos

As person and pianist, Gabriela Montero has always been unequivocal in outlook and it is little surprise she has turned...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019

MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Jansons)

Following the example of Berlioz (and before him Beethoven in the Pastoral), the central subject of the First Symphony (and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2019

KROGULSKI Piano Concerto (Howard Shelley)

Nelson Goerner introduced me (and, I suspect, 99.9 per cent of Gramophone readers) to the name of Józef Krogulski (1815...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2019

ICHMOURATOV Letter From an Unknown Woman

Music is nothing without some degree of generic and geographical cross fertilisation and the work of Airat Ichmouratov is one...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW2019

HAYDN Organ Concertos (Iain Quinn)

These cheery works are Haydn’s earliest concertos, composed in the early to mid-1750s when he was eking out a living...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2019

FRID Symphony No 3. Concerto for Viola, Piano and Orchestra

Born into a Jewish family in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) in 1915, Grigory Frid studied music at the Moscow Conservatory,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW2019

FAURÉ The Secret Fauré II

For their first ‘Secret Fauré’ disc (12/18), Ivor Bolton and the Basel Symphony Orchestra surveyed the composer’s incidental music and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2019

Leningrad Symphonies

They may have been plundered after the USSR’s demise but Soviet radio archives continue to yield gems such as these...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Gardner)

On first acquaintance, I found Edward Gardner’s fleet, streamlined readings of Brahms’s First and Third Symphonies straightforward almost to a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2019

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