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As I’ve become better acquainted with it I’ve warmed to this recording, a little, but I know I shan’t often...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 09/2014
This hybrid SACD was recorded at the Barbican in March 2013 as part of the LSO’s Brahms/Szymanowski festival. Although there...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2014
The bizarre title, ‘Mozart’s Instrumental Oratorium’, derives from Harnoncourt’s belief that the three late symphonies form a sort of ‘last...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2014
Over a dozen new recordings, not to mention an entirely new performing edition, of Bruckner’s youthfully vibrant and at times...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2014
Most of the differences between this Bruckner Ninth Symphony, which was recorded in concert just five months before Claudio Abbado’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014
The musicians of the Boston Early Music Festival first performed this charming pair of pastorales in 2011. They date very...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2014
For Verdi it was King Lear, an opera that was never written, despite the composer’s obsession with the subject. And...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2014
The Venetian composer Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1709 91) worked in Munich and then retired to Padua – where he met...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014
Haydn’s glorious celebration of the rural world in which he, a wheelwright’s son, grew up has done notably well on...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2014
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has proved himself one of today’s leading Haydn interpreters – amply so on five volumes of sonatas (and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2014
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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