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Jakob Lindberg: Jacobean Lute Music

Upon hearing this terrific release for the first time, I remarked to a friend that it could easily have been...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2014

LANGGAARD String Quartets

The Nightingale Quartet’s first volume of Rued Langgaard (6/12) brought to attention a quartet output which, though not unknown, was...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2014

1930s Violin Concertos Vol 1

If any genre is likely to tap the emotional resources of a great composer, it’s the violin concerto – Vivaldi...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014

WEINBERG Symphonies Nos 10 & 12

Perhaps you have observed the recent explosion of Weinberg recordings and are wondering whether the pendulum may have swung too...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2014

READ THOMAS Selected Works for Orchestra

Despite the steady number of works that have appeared on various labels, Augusta Read Thomas (b1964) has not had the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9

From Claudio Abbado to Günter Wand, this greatest of all unfinished masterpieces has repeatedly appealed to great conductors nearing the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5. Piano Concerto No 3

If their brutalisation of Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto is anything to go by, Valery Gergiev’s partnership with Denis Matsuev threatens...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014

Eventide

The lasting impression that lingers on from this disc is of a perfect blending of eight voices to complement an...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2014

JANÁČEK On the overgrown path SCHUMANN Kinderszenen

Marc-André Hamelin’s normally genial features cloud at the description of him as a ‘super virtuoso’. For him such apparent praise...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 14

However uncompromising its moral and ideological outlook, the self-evident musical distinction of Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony at once attracted the attention...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2014

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