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SCHOENBERG Pelleas und Melisande Op 5. Erwartung Op 17

Hearing this pair of compositions one after the other underlines just how far Schoenberg travelled in matters of style and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2012

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

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