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Welcome to the 2026 BBC Music Magazine Awards. The nominated recordings for the 2026 Concerto Award, in association with ...
Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by disillusionment, ...
Karol Szymanowski's "Violin Concerto" was written in the autumn of 1916 in Zarudzie, Ukraine, on the estate of the composer's friend - Józef Jaroszyński. It is dedicated to Paweł Kochański. On this ...
Thorvaldsdottir’s new cello concerto, “Before We Fall,” is a bange, sonically and intellectually, dense with ideas and meriting repeat hearings. It launches explosively, which is not an unusual ...
Concerto for Harpsichord (or Piano) and String Orchestra Op. 40 was commissioned by the Polish Radio for the Composers Forum, a radio series of presentations of contemporary Polish composers. "Totally ...
Prokofiev’s most popular concerto has inspired a range of interpretations since the composer’s own 1932 recording. David Gutman picks the finest from a burgeoning discography Sviatoslav Richter, a ...