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MESSIAEN Turangalîla-Symphonie (Gimeno)

Quick and even precipitate tempos don’t exclude ardency of expression in Gustavo Gimeno’s direction of Turangalîla. He shapes the divided...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024

KRIEGER Orchestral Works (Thomson)

Diversity is an outstanding feature of the ‘Music of Brazil’ series from Naxos, not only in turning up so many...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024

HOWELL Orchestral Works (Miller)

‘Music is a rum go.’ So remarked Vaughan Williams of his profession, words that might have resonated with the Birmingham-born...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024

DEBUSSY Jeux STRAVINSKY Petrushka (Mäkelä)

Petrushka comes home. To Paris if not the Théâtre du Châtelet. Following on from Klaus Mäkelä’s handsome coupling of Stravinsky’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2024

CHIN Orchestral Works (Rattle)

Unsuk Chin follows John Adams in getting the full Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings treatment while still alive, and rest assured the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Skrowaczewski)

Stanisław Skrowaczewski, who died in February 2017 at the age of 93, was a master conductor and much-loved musician whose...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 1872; Symphony No 3 1889 (Poschner)

Although Bruckner revised his Second Symphony several times after its initial composition in 1872, there’s much to be said for...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2024

BRAHMS; BUSONI Violin Concertos (Francesca Dego)

Italian-born Francesca Dego returns to the successful formula of her debut concerto disc (DG, 2/18), pairing an Italian rarity with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2024

William Youn: Boulanger, Fauré, Hahn

Lovers of French rarities will enjoy this stroll down the boulevard of belle époque Paris featuring Reynaldo Hahn’s Piano Concerto...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024

BACEWICZ; ENESCU; YSAŸE Music for Strings

Three string-playing composers who hailed from the same Franco-Belgian school of string pedagogy – this album from John Wilson’s Sinfonia...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024

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