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PROKOFIEV Visions Fugitives HINDEMITH 5 Pieces
The playing of the Camerata Nordica on this disc of music from between the wars is, in a word, sensational....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2014
Charlie Siem: Under the Stars
Charlie Siem’s new CD takes its title from a song composed by Herbert Spencer (1877-1944), a name that had me...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2014
VIVALDI Flute Concertos
In a world with no shortage of Vivaldi recorder concerto discs, avoiding the routine is a must. Some fail, some...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2014
STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben VARÈSE Amériques
First, Ein Heldenleben, remarkable primarily for the forward momentum of Ingo Metzmacher’s performance, the overall excellence of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014
STRAUSS Don Juan. A Hero's Life
It goes without saying that this new LPO live disc enters a crowded field. What, then, justifies its release? For...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2014
STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra. Aus Italien
Both pieces open on an auspicious pedal note but any notion that they were cut from the same cloth ends...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2014
SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
The definition and dynamism that Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra have been bringing to their cycle of Schubert...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014
PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
As Marin Alsop has remarked, Prokofiev consistently bucked prevailing trends, whether political, musical or inter-personal, so it is appropriate that...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014
PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet
As I write, Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are embarking on their fifth European tour. Their relationship has...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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