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BRUCKNER Symphony No 0 'die Nullte' (Poschner)
Linz Bruckner Orchestra | Markus Poschner
The earliest of Bruckner’s three symphonies in D minor, No 0 or Die Nullte was written shortly after the composer’s...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2022
LOEFFLER Octet DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) is one of the most fascinating figures in American music. Born near Berlin and raised in...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2024
The Passenger: Piano Trios by Weinberg & Schubert
As pairings of composers go, there is a lot to commend Schubert and Weinberg. Apart from Schubert being one of...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2024
Avi Avital 'Baroque Album'
(Il) Giardino Armonico Ensemble | Giovanni Antonini
If I hear a recording this year more guaranteed to put a spring in my step than this, then 2024...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
MESSIAEN Quatuor pour la fin du temps MURAIL Stalag VIIIa
No 20th-century composition rises more determinedly above earthly trials and tribulations than the quartet for violin, cello, clarinet and piano...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024
BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Thielemann)
Christian Thielemann | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
This is the first release in a cycle of the Bruckner symphonies by Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic, an...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2021
KREK; PEDE 'O Listen'
Danish National Vocal Ensemble | Martina Batič
This fascinating album features music (and two composers) unknown to the majority of listeners, beautifully sung by the Danish National...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2025
SCHOENBERG Pelleas und Melisande. Verklärte Nacht (Payare)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Payare
Following his well-received accounts of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony (6/23) and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (4/24), Rafael Payare’s third recording for Pentatone...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2024
BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Roth)
Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra | François-Xavier Roth
This is a superb account of the original 1874 version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, first published in 1975 in Leopold...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2023
WEBER Der Freischütz (Mazzola)
Content warning: this Freischütz contains entirely rewritten dialogue, added music, cut music, an additional character, reorderings and general scenes of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2025
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