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Despite being one of Britain's leading composers over the past few decades, John McCabe (b. 1939) has not been well served by the record industry. True, he has made — and still makes — recordings as a pianist, but almost never of his own music, while his orchestral works have only rarely...

It is surprising how rare this apt coupling is of Mozart's three concertos for reed instruments. Christoph von Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra here follow up their series of late Mozart symphonies (10/93) with an impressive showcase disc with soloists to match the characteristically...

Sony Classical Festspieldokumente mono g CD SMK68445 (63 minutes: ADD). Recorded at a performance during the Salzburg Festival on August 6th, 1958.

Regular readers of Gramophone need no reminder of my admiration for Howard Shelley's ongoing Mozart concerto series with the London Mozart Players, but since I must not take prior knowledge for granted let me again state that his performances are informed by virtues of intelligence, feeling,...

As well as nimble fingers, the Italian soloist here brings poise and structure to these contrasting masterpieces, the D minor Concerto as tense as its companion — Mozart's last piano concerto — is Olympian. But the music needs much more than these qualities. The first movement of K466 is...