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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
PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 3 & 7
This is not the first distinguished Onyx release from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and its young Ukrainian conductor but it...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2014
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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