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Toscanini The Maestro

Peter Rosen’s 1985 film, scripted by Harvey Sachs, very much presents Toscasisi rather than Toscanono, as you might expect from...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2013

STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5

For years I avoided opening-night galas, thinking I was allergic to champagne. Turns out, though, it was the programming that...

Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: AW2013

Royal Recorder Concertos: Music from the Court of King Frederik IV

There have been CDs of ‘Danish’ Baroque orchestral repertoire before, notably from Concerto Copenhagen, but there’s certainly room for more....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2013

Nordic Spring

Scandinavian string-playing continues to gleam with virtuosity in this Norwegian round-up of what are effectively highlights of such repertoire in...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2013

TYBERG Symphony No 2. Piano Sonata No 2

Marcel Tyberg was a victim of the Holocaust but his scores were saved and have recently been championed by the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: AW2013

STRAVINSKY Histoire du Soldat. Dumbarton Oaks, Concerto for Chamber Orchestra

Dance rhythms run through all these three scores, even the attractive Dumbarton Oaks concerto for which Stravinsky drew an analogy...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: AW2013

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Of four new Francophone Rites – taking into account (8/13) the recordings conducted by Paavo Järvi and Philippe Jordan –...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2013

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben. Tod und Verklärung

You’d think that, in theory at least, Richard Strauss tone-poems that are conducted with what seems like a minimum of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2013

SCHUMANN Symphony No 2. Overtures

There is no shame in reaching the age of 80 without ever having released a Schumann symphony on disc, but...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2013

RESPIGHI Complete Orchestral Music Vol 3

The latest in Francesco La Vecchia’s series of Respighi orchestral music brings another generous haul of rarities and enjoys production...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2013

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