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HONEGGER Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

These two fine Honegger symphonies make for an invigorating coupling, the gritty and muscular Second for strings and trumpet from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014

GOUVY Cantate, Oeuvres symphoniques et Musique de chambre

‘Nobody cares what I have done; in Paris people think only of themselves and of the present…More and more I...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2014

KALINNIKOV Symphony No 1 GLAZUNOV Symphony No 5

Now holding posts in Tokyo, Geneva and Monte Carlo, 30 year-old Kazuki Yamada has perhaps been too busy to return...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014

LEIGHTON Piano Cncerto No 1 GIPPS Piano Concerto

More gaps in the catalogue valiantly plugged by Cameo Classics. Angela Brownridge has already proved an assiduous champion of her...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014

Orchestral Masterworks from Switzerland

The title’s stretching it a bit with the inclusion of Ernst Widmer, who became a naturalised Brazilian at the age...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8

A film of a symphony in live performance filmed just three years after an audio recording of the same piece...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7

Right from the opening pp tremolando you can tell that as an interpretation this is going to be something off...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No 2 BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1

Guro Kleven Hagen, at 20 years old, already plays with great assurance and true artistry. Her account of the Prokofiev...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2014

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 12 - 16

Mahler, Mitropoulos and Bernstein seeded the idea, and now the Norwegian violinist and conductor Terje Tønnesen allows it to blossom...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2014

BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 - 4

The Prometheus Overture augurs well, a brightly lit performance, unhurried and nicely shaped with unforced accents. Coriolan on the other...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014

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