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BRAHMS Symphony No 2. Serenade No 2

The eye is a great deceiver. Watch these Lucerne Festival Brahms performances and you might think you are in the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015

BIRTWISTLE Angel Fighter

As co-founder of the London Sinfonietta in 1968, David Atherton has been responsible for several Birtwistle premieres down the decades:...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2015

Of Madness and Love

The booklet’s claim ‘inspired by William Shakespeare’ is only really true of the Roméo et Juliette excerpt and the Lear...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015

BERLIOZ Harold in Italy

Chandos’s new release continues a potential Berlioz cycle from Sir Andrew, following his well-received Overtures disc with the Bergen Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6. Egmont Overture

Listening to this entrancing and yet deeply affecting performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, it is easy see why, with all...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

As ever with Martin Haselböck, the overall agenda on this disc centres firmly on historic performance practice. After his series...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending

Recorded live in Riga in front of an exceptionally well-behaved audience, soloist Thomas Gould (leader of the Aurora Orchestra and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 8. Violin Concerto

No sooner had I filed my review of Thomas Gould’s Riga version of the Beethoven Violin Concerto (see below) than...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3

It is rare to hear celebrated pianists playing instruments from an earlier age, which is why these performances by Martha...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015

BARBER; BARTÓK Piano Concertos

Although many jazz pianists unquestionably play classical music well, do their performances stack up to those of world-class, full-time classical...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2015

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