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HERSCH Violin Concerto. end stages (Kopatchinskaja)

Michael Hersch’s Violin Concerto (2015) immediately hurls us into a wrenching scene. Trumpet and horn yelp a distressed fanfare as...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2018

GIPPS Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

‘That’s the best piece of classical music you’ve played to me’, quipped my 10-year-old daughter on hearing Ruth Gipps’s Second...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018

FINZI Cello Concerto (Paul Watkins)

Recordings of Gerald Finzi’s imposing Cello Concerto (premiered at the Cheltenham Festival under John Barbirolli in 1955, the last full...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2018

BRUCKNER String Quintet. Overture (Schaller)

The scale and richness of Bruckner’s String Quintet have encouraged a number of arrangements for string orchestra over the years,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2018

BRONSART; URSPRUCH Piano Concertos

The astounding thing about Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series is that, at Vol 77, it’s still going strong and that...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018

BRAHMS Symphonies and Serenades (Venzago)

Mario Venzago’s recordings of Bruckner symphonies with the Tapiola Sinfonietta and other chamber orchestras raised eyebrows and furrowed brows. I...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2018

BRAHMS Symphony No 3 (Dausgaard)

More muscular, immediate Brahms here from Thomas Dausgaard’s Meiningen-sized Swedish Chamber Orchestra but, where the previous two instalments (the first...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018

BIZET Symphony; DEBUSSY Fantaisie (Villaume)

Opinions differ about Debussy’s Fantaisie, his only work for piano and orchestra, completed in 1890. Self-critical as always, Debussy himself...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018

BERNSTEIN 'Broadway to Hollywood'

For its Bernstein centenary tribute, Somm’s historical label Ariadne has released a series of previously unavailable NDR broadcasts from Hanover...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos (Marcin Świątkiewicz)

Świątkiewicz was the harpsichordist who in 2015 shone an attractively characterful and joyous light on the little-known keyboard concertos of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW18

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