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SCHOENBERG Pelleas und Melisande. Verklärte Nacht (Payare)

Following his well-received accounts of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony (6/23) and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (4/24), Rafael Payare’s third recording for Pentatone...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2024

SCHARWENKA Piano Concerto No 1 (Jonathan Powell)

Scharwenka’s Piano Concerto No 1 is one of the greatest of all Romantic piano concertos. Completed in 1877, charming, full...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2024

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos (Stewart Goodyear. Zlata Chochieva)

Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto sits uneasily between lush Romanticism and abrasive modernism. When he was still a daring young pianist-composer...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2024

MOZART Viola Concerto. Sinfonia Concertante (Diyang Mei)

There’s a fine performance of the Sinfonia concertante here. But the obvious selling point is Berlin Philharmonic viola player Diyang...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos Vol 10 (Bavouzet)

The first volume of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s collaboration with Gábor Takács-Nagy conducting the Manchester Camerata in the Mozart piano concertos appeared...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2024

MARTINŮ; WALTON Viola Concertos (Amihai Grosz)

Whatever the corporate strength of the Berlin Philharmonic, it is also an ensemble of famous soloists. No surprise then to...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2024

HAYDN Late Symphonies Vol 4 (Fischer)

Aficionados of Adám Fischer’s revisiting of Haydn’s ‘London’ Symphonies will know what to expect from this final instalment. His nimble...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 43 & 49 (Podger)

Rachel Podger trails her assumption of the role of Principal Guest Director of Tafelmusik this autumn with a pairing of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024

ELGAR; WALTON Cello Concertos (Gautier Capuçon)

A dream team in the making, I suspect. Capuçon and Pappano may be collaborating here for the first time but...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2024

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto (Benedict Kloeckner. Raphaela Gromes)

It must be a rare cellist who doesn’t feel deeply about Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, that lyrical cello song wrapped in...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2024

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