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Mon 30 Oct, 2017:
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Wed 11 Oct, 2017:
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1, Op 35; Violin Concerto No 2, Op 61; Karlowicz: Violin Concerto in A major, Op 8
Here’s a value-for-money coupling of three contrasting Polish violin concertos from the first half of the last century in the estimable hands of...
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Mon 09 Oct, 2017:
Schoenberg: String Quartets – No 2, Op 10; No 4, Op 37
The “catchy little theme” (the sleeve-writer’s phrase) that opens Schoenberg’s Fourth Quartet (1936) always reminds me of Korngold’s Much...
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Fri 15 Sep, 2017:
Potter: Piano Concertos – No 2 in D minor; No 4 in E major; Variazioni di bravura on a theme by Rossini
Prior to his appointment in 1832 as principal of the Royal Academy of Music, London-born Cipriani Potter (1792-1871) had already amassed a sizeable...
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Mon 28 Aug, 2017:
Pfitzner: Die Rose vom Liebesgarten
Here’s a curio. Pfitzner’s Die Rose vom Liebesgarten was already sounding anachronistic when first staged in 1905. A Lohengrin-like,...
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Thu 06 Jul, 2017:
Schmidt: Symphony No 2 in E flat major; Strauss: Symphonic Interlude from Intermezzo ('Träumerei am Kamin')
Set down at the start of July 2015 in the Grosser Saal of Vienna's Musikverein just a few days before a memorable London performance at the Proms,...
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Wed 14 Jun, 2017:
Brahms: Die schöne Magelone, Op 33
Brahms’s 15 Romances from Ludwig Tieck’s ‘The Wondrous Love Story of the Beautiful Magelone and Count Peter of Provence’ make up a romantic...
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Fri 09 Jun, 2017:
Bartók: The Six String Quartets
I’d call this a radical re-think of the Bartók quartet cycle, as different to the taut, rhythmically propulsive Americans (Juilliards, Emersons,...
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Fri 12 May, 2017:
Michael Gielen Edition, Volume 4 (1968-2014) – Orchestral works by Berlioz, Dvořák, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Schumann, Smetana, Johann Strauss II, Suk, Tchaikovsky, Wagner and Weber
There are riches galore in this fourth volume from SWR Music devoted to the recorded legacy of Michael Gielen (who turns 90 this September). The focus...
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Mon 08 May, 2017:
Beethoven: Piano Concertos – No 1 in C major, Op 15; No 2 in B flat major, Op 19
Yevgeny Sudbin and Osmo Vänskä complete their traversal of the Beethoven piano concertos with the Tapiola Sinfonietta, following previous...
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Thu 09 Mar, 2017:
Beach: Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op 45; Chaminade: Concertstück in C sharp minor, Op 40; Howell: Piano Concerto in D minor
A formidably talented performer as well as gifted composer, Amy Beach was the soloist in the April 1900 Boston world premiere of her expansive and...
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Thu 23 Feb, 2017:
Stanford: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 126; Dante Rhapsodies, Op 92; Six Characteristic Pieces, Op 132 – Nos 3 (Study) and 4 (Roundel); Five Caprices, Op 138 – No 5 (Tempo di Valse)
How pleasing to be able to welcome another fine recording of Charles Villiers Stanford's ripely romantic Second Piano Concerto (1913). In my review...
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Tue 21 Feb, 2017:
Englund: Violin Concerto; Klami: Violin Concerto
Both violin concertos play for 28 minutes, and – following fellow-Finn Sibelius’s example – they are real discoveries. That by Einar Englund...
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Fri 16 Dec, 2016:
Boyle: Piano Concerto in D minor; Hill: Piano Concerto in A major; Piano Sonata in A major
Volume 69 in Hyperion’s continuing survey of romantic piano concertos takes an Antipodean turn with two 20th-century works by Australians Alfred...
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