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RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2

Tadaaki Otaka is a Rachmaninov interpreter of no mean experience and insight – I for one recall with pleasure his...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2012

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos No 4

Noriko Ogawa’s reading of the First Concerto reminded me of Malcolm Binns’s old recording with Sir Alexander Gibson. Here, the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2012

PATERAS Collected Works 2002 - 2012

I suspect economics was the reason why Australian composer Anthony Pateras – contemplating this five-CD pull-together of his collected works...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 17 & 22

This third volume in Vassily Primakov’s Mozart cycle pairs two of the loveliest of his concertos, both particularly notable for...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2012

MESSIAEN Turangalîla Symphony

When, in 2008, I wrote a Gramophone Collection piece about Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie (A/08), Kent Nagano’s 2002 Berlin Philharmonic recording (9/01)...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012

MAHLER Symphonies Nos 2 & 9

Bernard Haitink’s nobility as a Mahler interpreter benefits the Resurrection Symphony like no other, a fact attested by numerous recordings,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2012

MAHLER Symphony No 1

This is the second recording in as many months to tell us (in the booklet-notes) that Mahler’s initial foray into...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 10/2012

LISZT Totentanz. Années de pèlerinage, 2ème année, Italie

If you want a recording that faithfully records every note of the three works for piano and orchestra on disc...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2012

F HØFFDING Orchestral Works

Finn Høffding (1899-1997) is a crucial figure in 20th-century Danish music. Although never Nielsen’s student, he was his friend and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2012

HAYDN Piano Concertos

Oliver Schnyder distinguishes his recording of Haydn’s three authentic keyboard concertos by opting to use cadenzas specially written by Daniel...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2012

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