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SAINT-SAËNS Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Kantorow)
Jean-Jacques Kantorow | Liège Philharmonic Orchestra
The more I hear Saint-Saëns’s youthful symphonies, the more impressive they seem. If the various influences he absorbed are readily...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2021
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 and 7
When Günter Wand died last year at the age of 90, after little more than a decade in the musical...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2003
STRAUSS Salome
It’s taken a little while for this Salome, filmed at Bologna’s Teatro Comunale in early 2010, to make it to...
Reviewed in issue 08/2014
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang BEETHOVEN An die ferne Geliebte (Roderick Williams)
Iain Burnside | Roderick Williams
While recently hearing Matthias Goerne’s deadly serious Beethoven Lieder disc (DG, 4/20), I kept thinking that what this music really...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2020
Jessye Norman Salzburg Recital
Whatever has to be said about style and interpretation (and that does not imply that a whole lot of demolition-work...
Reviewed in issue 11/1991
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn (excerpts)
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Andreas Schmidt | Leonard Bernstein | Lucia Popp
This is Bernstein's third recording of songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn if you count his rather erratic live piano and...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1989
Philadelphia Orchestra Centennial Collection
Another scrumptious transatlantic treat, and a victorious collaboration between two of America's most noted historic recording experts. Mark Obert-Thorn served...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2000
Bach Oboe Concertos
Alexei Ogrintchouk | Alina Ibragimova | Swedish Chamber Orchestra
None of these four concertos is original Bach; each is a conjecture of how it might have started life. The...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2011
MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Gimeno)
Gustavo Gimeno | Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra | Miah Persson
Setting this new studio recording of Mahler’s teenage piano quartet movement, as elaborated by Colin Matthews, against a more congested...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018
TCHAIKOVSKY Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov | Jennifer Koh | Odense Symphony Orchestra
This recording completes a circular journey for Jennifer Koh. In 1992 the American violinist was conducted by Alexander Vedernikov in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016
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