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MENDELSSOHN; SCHUMANN Piano Concertos (Stewart Goodyear)

How do you like your Schumann Piano Concerto served? Heavyweight? Proto-Brahmsian? Or lightweight, quasi-Mendelssohn? If you prefer the former approach...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2025

KHACHATURIAN Piano Concerto (Jean-Yves Thibaudet)

Like many, my first encounter with the Khachaturian Piano Concerto was by way of Moura Lympany’s 1945 Decca recording with...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2025

HOUGH Piano Concerto. Sonatina. Partita (Stephen Hough)

‘I’d never wanted to write a piano concerto (how to begin?)’, Stephen Hough writes in the notes for this release....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2025

HANDEL; TAILLEFERRE Harp Concertos (Marie-Pierre Langlamet)

The soloist on this new recording, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, has been the harpist of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 1993 and is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2025

FAGERLUND Autumn Equinox

John Storgårds conducted the world premiere and first recording of Sebastian Fagerlund’s opera Autumn Sonata (11/18), so he brings inside...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2025

Oleg Shebeta-Dragan plays Nielsen, Busoni, Francaix, Milhaud

There are three categories in the Carl Nielsen International Competition – violin, flute and clarinet – reflecting the Danish composer’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2025

BRAHMS Violin Concerto SUK Fantasy (Liza Ferschtman)

You would need to journey way back in time to encounter violin-playing that is as expressively potent as that which...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2025

BARBER; SIBELIUS Violin Concertos (Renaud Capuçon)

It’s amazing how the character of a performance can reveal itself in just a couple of bars. Renaud Capuçon is...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2025

PAGANINI 24 Caprices (María Dueñas)

In the booklet note to this second album of hers for DG, María Dueñas notes that while Paganini wrote his...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2025

Contemporary Landscapes

Each of these works was commissioned by the Buffalo Philharmonic, and each showcases the excellence of the orchestra and the...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2025

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