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'Made in Britain'
We have already heard John Wilson as a passionate exponent of English music directing a splendid new collection of John...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 8
The scene is the Royal Festival Hall, London. The occasion is a concert to mark the centenary of Vaughan Williams’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2011
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 4 - 6
One man’s meat is another man’s poison, so I’d better state straight away that the visuals are not to my...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2011
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5
Hot on the heels of Honeck’s ear-popping Mahler Third comes this fiery and impassioned Tchaikovsky Fifth. Clearly what’s happening in...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2011
STRAVINSKY The Firebird
Les orientales was a potpourri of quasi-oriental dances assembled by Diaghilev (for, among others, Nijinsky and Karsavina) in Paris in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2011
LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra SIBELIUS Symphony No 5
Who is it for, this odd coupling drawn from two concerts given in 2008? Supporting the project is the Polska...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2011
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 6 & 12
With the Sixth and Twelfth Symphonies, the RLPO harnesses one of the most profoundly thought-out of Shostakovich’s conceptions to one...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2011
SAARIAHO Clarinet Concerto, D'om le vrai sens
As Kaija Saariaho approaches her 60th birthday, her music continues to extend in range and depth. Susana Välimäki’s moving note...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2011
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme
Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations continues to be one of his most popular pieces, beloved of cellists as well as their audiences....
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2011
MATHIAS Piano Concertos 1 & 2 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasy
A late developer, Vaughan Williams took many years to ‘find’ his voice, and this, it could fairly be said, emerged...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2011
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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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...
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This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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