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TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6. Romances

I have to hand it to Yannick Nézet-Séguin: this is without question one of the finest Pathétiques to have come...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2013

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4

No beating about the bush: Vladimir Jurowski’s marvellously articulate, thrillingly combustible 2011 live recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth has nothing to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2013

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 2

Boris Berezovsky’s espousal of the Second Concerto is interesting in that he goes for the original version rather than the...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2013

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra

Coming hard on the heels of Gustavo Dudamel’s first CD release with his own Los Angeles Philharmonic (5/13), this Strauss...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2013

SPOHR Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

As the motto phrase on cellos and basses opening No 4 rises out pianissimo against a pianissimo background of violas,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2013

SCHUMANN Complete Symphonic Works, Vol 1

Right from the off, things augur well. The Spring Symphony’s opening Andante un poco maestoso is also, usefully, con moto,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2013

RIEHM Hamamuth – Stadt der Engel. Wer sind diese Kinder

The two works on this CD feature the pianist Nicolas Hodges as soloist and are related in a number of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2013

MOZART Clarinet Concerto. Kegelstatt Trio. Allegro

Martin Fröst has already recorded a fine, outgoing version of Mozart’s Concerto in its original form for basset clarinet. A...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2013

MAHLER Symphony No 5

Mahler once said that conductors would take the central Scherzo of the Fifth Symphony – the fulcrum of the piece...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2013

MAHLER Symphonies Nos 6 & 8

Given the level of insight and illumination that Jonathan Nott’s Mahler cycle has thus far thrown up, these latest instalments...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2013

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