City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra reviews
Schubert: Symphonies Nos 2 & 6
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner (Chandos)
Schubert: Symphonies Nos 3, 5 & 8
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner (Chandos)
Kanneh-Mason performs Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto and other works
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Francesca Dego performs violin concertos by Paganini and Wolf-Ferrari
Paganini’s First Concerto used to be played by only a handful of devotees – even now, despite taking all the once-traditional cuts, Yehudi Menuhin’s early 1960s stereo account with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Alberto Erede (EMI/Warner) comes closest to making all those Rossini-in-overdrive pyrotechnics sound musically compelling. Since then, a number of distinguished accounts have emerged, ranging from those by Midori and Itzhak Perlman to those by Maxim Vengerov and Hilary Hahn.