Clear and precise, yet full of fizz

Symphony No. 5; Swanwhite Suite etc Christian Tetzlaff (violin); Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon Ondine ODE 1468-2 77:16 mins One of the features of Finland’s impressive music educati

Marc-André Hamelin (piano) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Mark Elder Hyperion CDA67143 The practical requirements of Busoni’s Piano Concerto – a chorus and enormous orchestra – on top of the f

Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Erkki-Sven Tüür: Violin Concerto No. 2 Hans Christian Aavik (violin); Odense Symphony Orchestra/Gemma New Orchid Classics ORC100380 51:39 mins It was an audacious move to

The work ‘Italy at last! And what I have all my life considered as the greatest possible felicity is now begun, and I am basking in it. Every hour spent here has brought with it so much never to be fo

Complete Suites and Other Music for Keyboard Cristian Sandrin (piano) SOMM Recordings SOMMCD0702 61:09 mins In the first complete recording of Purcell’s eight keyboard suites on the modern piano, Roma

Gargantuan in scope and scale, Busoni’s Piano Concerto is ferociously complex – demanding both virtuosic solos and expansive accompaniment from its pianist – and structured in a way that makes Beethov