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REGER Violin Concerto Op 101

At the beginning of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, the title-character torments Eurydice by threatening to play his tedious, hour-plus...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2013

MOZART Symphonies Vol 9

Captivated by clarinets he had heard in Mannheim in 1777 en route to Paris, Mozart used them for the first...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2013

MOZART In-Between

Did Mozart suffer from teenage angst? This is not, I must admit, a question that had overly vexed me until...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2013

MCCABE Rainforest I & II

Among John McCabe’s catalogue of concertos are several double concertos, the most recent being Les martinets noirs (‘Swifts’, 2003), a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2013

MAHLER Symphony No 8 'Symphony of the Thousand'

First, the bad news. The problems in recorded choral sound that plagued earlier instalments in Markus Stenz’s Mahler cycle with...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 02/2013

MAHLER Symphony No 6 'Tragic'

The first few pages tell you that this is unlikely to be a Mahler Sixth to challenge or to intimidate....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2013

LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Though there are myriad recordings of Liszt’s four best-known works for piano and orchestra, to find all four on the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013

KHACHATURIAN Spartacus Suite. Gayane Suite RAVEL Daphnis et Chloe Suite

One might argue quality not quantity – and the former is amply in evidence here – but 58 minutes is...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2013

ELGAR; CARTER Cello Concertos

It was brave of Weilerstein to sandwich Carter between Elgar and Bruch, but there are connections with Barenboim. He gave...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 02/2013

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. Czech Suite

Rob Cowan rightly heaped praise upon this team’s two previous Dvořák symphony anthologies (8/12 and 11/12) and now it’s my...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2013

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