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Sturm und Drang, Vol 3

'Storm and Stress’ is a useful phrase to describe the emotional world explored by German-speaking composers in the latter part...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2023

WEINBERG Symphony No 12 (Storgårds)

Mieczysław Weinberg was a prolific composer, so even though many of his pieces have been revived over the past 30...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 12/2023

SAINT-SAËNS Symphonic Poems. Le Carnaval des animaux. L'Assassinat du duc de Guise (Roth)

‘I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.’ What a fertile musical imagination Camille Saint-Saëns possessed. It’s easy to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2023

NOVÁK Concertos (Netopil)

What next for Martinů fanciers? This, perhaps: the best of a clutch of releases exploring the music of his student,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2023

MOZART Violin Concertos Vol 2 (Aisslinn Nosky)

As David Threasher informed us back in March 2021, the first volume of the teenage Mozart’s violin concertos from Aisslinn...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2023

MOZART Symphonies Nos 36 & 38

‘Minasi’s Mozart never smiles’, wrote Richard Wigmore of the Italian conductor’s previous exploration of the symphonies (5/20) – two discs...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2023

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 23 (Charles Richard-Hamelin)

Jonathan Cohen and Les Violons du Roy brook no compromises at the dramatic start of the great D minor Concerto,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2023

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 6 & 25 (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

Until his move to Vienna at the start of the 1780s, Mozart was an avowed admirer of the pianos of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2023

MAYER Piano Concerto. Overtures (Tobias Koch)

The warm period sonorities of the Kölner Akademie – pure-toned strings and downy flutes – help to place Emilie Mayer...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2023

LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra. Partita for Violin and Orchestra (Collon)

Following on from the symphonies (2/19, 4/20), the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra continues its Lutosławski survey with three characteristic pieces...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2023

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