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DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 7 & 8

Big-boned and big-hearted, Dvořák’s late symphonic music has found a good match in the Houston Symphony – on the whole....

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 05/2016

DVOŘÁK; MARTINŮ Cello Sonatas

It’s no surprise that the Zurich-born cellist Christian Poltéra is a chamber music devotee. Even his big soloistic statements are...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 05/2016

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 1

This probably doesn’t need comparisons, it was suggested when I was offered this disc to review. How true: what would...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2016

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1. 4 Ballades

In a concerto that gives a fair share of the heavy lifting to the orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony, under...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2016

BORTKIEWICZ Violin Concerto. Symphonic Poem

Dutton’s disc (with its two premiere recordings) is already the second recording released this year devoted entirely to the music...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2016

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

I much enjoyed the first instalment of Beethoven’s piano concertos with this all-Dutch line-up, which boldly began with the Fourth...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2016

BAX Variations BUTTERWORTH Fantasia SCOTT Poem

‘Eccentric very!’ commented Edward German upon reading the manuscript score of Arnold Bax’s Variations for orchestra. Completed in June 1904...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2016

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos

The concertos for multiple harpsichords from the 1730s are, for the most part, transcriptions from lost earlier (or near-contemporaneous) sources...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2016

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

Neither of the ensembles on these two new Brandenburg sets is among the star names in the field, but the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2016

A GIBBS Suites

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs is one of those names you used to come across in piano stools: a very English petit-maître...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2016

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