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MOZART Overtures (Willens)

Discs entirely devoted to Mozart overtures are rare, with good reason. With the familiar works the ear repeatedly craves the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2024

KRAUS Overtures (Astronio)

German composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born the same year as Mozart, trained in Mannheim and worked at the culturally...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024

HELLSTENIUS Public Behaviour. Together

Looking for something to blow the musical cobwebs away? Try Henrik Hellstenius. For the past three decades, the Norwegian composer...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2024

HAYDN J &M Violin Concerto No 4; Concerto For Harpsichord & Viola

‘Slender pieces of modest charm’ is how Richard Wigmore describes the violin concertos in his indispensable Faber Pocket Guide to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024

FIRSOVA Piano Concerto (Yefim Bronfman)

Elena Firsova’s 18-minute, three-movement Piano Concerto – not to be confused with her Piano Concerto No 1 of 1985, which...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024

Mer(s): Debussy, Dukas, Cras

The concept behind Mathieu Herzog’s Appassionato would seem to me to be one of chamber music (and the mindset implicit...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Hindoyan)

Domingo Hindoyan’s interpretation of the Fourth Symphony is well paced, admirably attentive to dynamics and avoids any interpretative eccentricities. Solo...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2024

BRITTEN Violin Concerto (Baiba Skride)

This vividly recorded account of Britten’s 1939 Violin Concerto is uniquely paired with the Double Concerto for violin and viola...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 03/2024

BERKELEY; RAVEL; POUNDS Orchestral Works (Wilson)

Born in London in 1954, Adam Pounds attended the London College of Music before going on to study privately with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024

JANÁČEK Katya Kabanova (Rattle)

This Katya Kabanova forms the second instalment of Simon Rattle’s LSO Live series of Janáček’s major operas, begun in summer...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2024

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