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French Cello Concertos. Russian Cello Concertos

As debut solo albums go, the Korean cellist Hee-Young Lim’s Abbey Road-recorded programme of French cello concertos – with the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019

Lucie Horsch: Baroque Journey

What a welcome sight it has been for a second disc from Decca’s young Dutch recorder champion Lucie Horsch to...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019

TIPPETT Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Brabbins)

The Tippett who wrote the Third and Fourth Symphonies between 1970 and 1977 was, inevitably, a rather different composer from...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2019

DUN Violin Concertos (Eldbjørg Hemsing)

Whoever said that old forms were dead? The concerto has enjoyed a new lease of life during the past few...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 12 (Meister)

There is only the most tenuous connection between the two main works on this disc: Russia pre- and post-Revolution. Both...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 6 & 7 (Nelsons)

We’ve come to expect a clear-sighted brilliance and technical excellence from this series. It’s become something of a benchmark in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2019

RANDS Chains Like the Sea

Opening this orchestral portrait of the American-British composer Bernard Rands is a Latino dance with a difference. There is no...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 4 (Kholodenko)

Compared alongside the fast and faceless performances in Vol 1 of the Kholodenko/Harth-Bedoya/Fort Worth Prokofiev concerto cycle (3/16), Vol 2...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019

PRICE Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

In addition to the harvest of death, disenfranchisement, pain and suffering inflicted by societies locked into institutionalised racism, there is...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2019

MOZART Symphonies Nos 40 & 41 (Manze)

Mozart’s last two symphonies were composed virtually simultaneously in 1788 and make a common coupling on disc. Few recordings, though,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2019

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