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GERSHWIN Piano Concerto. Rhapsody in Blue

I’ve just reviewed Orion Weiss with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under JoAnn Falletta (Naxos, 5/12), but this new release offers...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2012

ENESCU Symphony No 2

Enescu’s career as a symphonist is rather more complicated than his three numbered symphonies might suggest. The official First (1905)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2012

ELLIN Three States at Play. White Crucifixion. Sinfonia No 1

Active as a conductor as well as a composer (he directed a fine account of Malcolm Arnold’s Third Symphony with...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 10/2012

BUSONI Clarinet Concertino. Flute Divertimento

Eine Lustspielouvertüre (1897, rev 1901) contains some of the happiest music I know, on a par with Nielsen’s Maskarade and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2012

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4, 'Romantic'

There’s much worth celebrating on this excellent new (or newish) recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony. The venue is the Royal...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2012

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2

Mario Venzago’s Bruckner Second (1877 version, ed William Carragan – the one that Barenboim opted for on his Berlin/Teldec recording)...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2012

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

Leonard Slatkin’s new post as music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon yields up this polished performance of Berlioz’s...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2012

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3. Prometheus & Egmont Overtures

Take it for granted that the playing of the Simón Bolívar orchestra is very good. But Gustavo Dudamel isn’t pre-eminent...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2012

JS Bach/Bruce Haynes: Nouveaux “Brandebourgeois”

Depressing though it is to imagine Bach’s lost instrumental music – probably significant chamber works and concertos from both Weimar...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2012

WAGNER Parsifal

In the first scenes of Acts 1 and 3, Janowski – like Rattle in 2001 at Covent Garden and Hartmut...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2012

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