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SAINT-SAËNS Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra

Last autumn the Capuçon brothers, Renaud and Gautier, brought out a fine disc of Saint-Saëns’s La Muse et le poète...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014

MOZART Symphony in D, K385. Posthorn Serenade. March No 1, K335

A Harnoncourt recording will always leave a reviewer with a full page of notes, but let me go straight to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014

MOERAN In the Mountain Country. Rhapsodies Nos 1 & 2

This is a welcome addition by the Ulster Orchestra and JoAnn Falletta to the recording of Moeran’s orchestral rhapsodies and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2014

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 5

A very distinctive coupling this, stylised in the extreme and with a keen-eared approach to dynamics that is quite unlike...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014

MAHLER Symphony No 2

Mahler enthusiasts have cause to be grateful to Gilbert Kaplan, the biggest enthusiast of them all, one moreover with the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014

A Tribute to Erling Blondal Bengtsson Vol 3

This latest Danacord issue is designed as a memorial tribute to the great Danish cellist Erling Blöndahl Bengtsson, who died...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2014

BUSH Symphony No 2. Africa. Fantasia on Soviet Themes

Commissioned to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the City of Nottingham, the Second of Alan Bush’s four...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6

I am no sceptic where the filming of concerts is concerned. Given a meticulously prepared shooting script by a director...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2014

BRUCKNER Study Symphony. Symphony No 0

When I opened the CD case for this useful coupling of Bruckner’s two ‘nullified’ symphonies I fully expected to find...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2

Arrangements such as this exceptionally skilful chamber reworking of Bruckner’s Second Symphony by Anthony Payne were meat and potatoes to...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014

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