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Italian Inspirations (Alessio Bax)
The mesmerising Adagio of the Marcello-Bach Concerto was memorably recorded by Edwin Fischer in 1931. You rarely hear all three...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2020
HENZE Das Floss der Medusa (Meister)
‘The form is strong. The imagery is eloquent. This is a lyrical, impassioned, masterly and very powerful composition: a humanist...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2023
Bach Mass in B minor - Choruses
Otto Klemperer | Philharmonia Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra
Klemperer recorded the complete Mass in B minor in 1967, but an earlier version was planned and a start made...
Reviewed in issue 8/1999
BARTÓK Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Daniel Harding | Isabelle Faust | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Fancy a study in interpretative contrasts? Try the opening measures of the Second Concerto’s finale, first with Isabelle Faust and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2013
HAYDN Symphonies Nos 99 - 101
Bruno Weil | Capella Coloniensis | Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra | Thomas Fey
Two ‘London’ Symphony recordings arrive emblazoned with icons of the city: Tower Bridge, largely obscured by Thomas Fey, and Parliament’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2014
Haydn Complete Symphonies, Vol.11
Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra | Thomas Fey
Like previous instalments in Hänssler’s Haydn cycle, these superbly recorded performances of five symphonies from the years c1768 to 1776...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2008
Wagner Tannhäuser
This performance seems to me an almost perfect example of what Wagnerian music-drama is about. There was sonething about Wieland...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1987
Orff Carmina burana
Ozawa's RCA version, dating from the beginning of the 1970s, fresh direct and spontaneous and vividly transferred to CD, remains...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1989
BARTÓK Violin Concertos (Capuçon)
François-Xavier Roth | London Symphony Orchestra | Renaud Capuçon
Writing in the 2013 Awards issue regarding Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s often striking version of Bartók’s Second Concerto (Gramophone Recording of the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2018
JS BACH Violin Concertos (Lozakovich)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Chamber Orchestra | Daniel Lozakovich | Radoslaw Szulc
In many respects this is a quite exceptional programme. I love the way Daniel Lozakovich marks every little harmonic twist...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2018
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