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BRUCH; KORNGOLD Violin Concertos (Bomsori)

Now that the onward march of technology has trumped older notions of musical progress, we find record companies placing Korngold’s...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2025

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique RAVEL La valse (Makela)

The Orchestre de Paris know the Symphonie fantastique rather well. This ensemble was the heir to the orchestra of the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2025

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5. Piano Quintet Op 16 (Elisabeth Leonskaja)

Here we have a congenial and thoughtfully mapped-out collaboration in Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto between the seasoned veteran Elisabeth Leonskaja and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2025

BARTÓK The Complete Piano Concertos (Tomáš Vrána)

Having heard Tomáš Vrána’s superb recording of Vítězslava Kaprálová’s Piano Concerto (CPO, 7/24), his pianistic and musical authority in all...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2025

Future Horizons: Pieces for Oboe and Violin

At first glance, the title ‘Future Horizons’ may conjure up an album of music by a new generation of trailblazing...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2025

JS BACH Concertos for 3 and 4 Harpsichords

The re-creational spirit underscoring Bach’s harpsichord concertos offers the listener a particularly keen sense of the composer’s penchant for refashioning...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2025

ADÈS Orchestral Suites (Adès)

The more I hear from the myriad orchestral suites derived from Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face the more I wonder...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2025

BIBER Complete Violin Sonatas — 1681 (Bojan Čičić)

Charles Burney, writing in the 1770s, described these sonatas as ‘the most difficult and most fanciful music’ of their time,...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2025

The Mirage Calls

This enterprising programme brings together polyphony from the Old World and newly composed arrangements of songs from the Far East....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2025

The Four Elements

Coming up with relevant and coherent programming is a challenge every artist faces, whether in performance or before the microphones....

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2025

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