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SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen Legends. Pohjola’s Daughter

Competition is pretty intense as far as the Lemminkäinen Suite is concerned, not least from Ondine’s own Leif Segerstam (7/96)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 9. Violin Concerto

After the epic outrage and defiance of the ‘war’ symphonies, Nos 7 and 8, Shostakovich’s Ninth seemed deliberately designed to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2015

SCHUBERT 'Great' Symphony

There was a time when Schubert’s Great C major Symphony seemed an interpretatively elusive work, which explains why such store...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015

RODE Violin Concertos Nos 1, 5 & 9

This, the third volume of Friedemann Eichhorn’s traversal of the violin concertos of Pierre Rode, takes in his heyday in...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2015

RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé

Another month, another complete Daphnis et Chloé. It was only in May that I warmly welcomed the recording by the...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2015

PEJAČEVIČ Piano Concerto. Orchestral Songs

No, I hadn’t either. And my guess is that, unless aware of CPO’s five earlier volumes of Dora Pejačevic´’s music,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015

NIELSEN Complete Symphonies

It adds something to journey through this amazing cycle of symphonies in sequence and in relatively quick succession. The recent...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2015

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 5

Ruy Blas is something out of the ordinary, and not only because of its sleek lines and uncommonly fast tempi...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015

MENDELSSOHN; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos

The competition is fierce for these most frequently recorded of all violin concertos, both individually and together. Most of us...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015

MAHLER Symphonies Nos 7 & 8

In the interview accompanying the Eighth Symphony, Paavo Järvi confesses that its first part is ‘not my favourite music’ and,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2015

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