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DVOŘÁK Symphony No 6 JANÁČEK Idyll

As with José Serebrier’s and Marin Alsop’s versions of the Sixth Symphony, Gerard Schwarz observes the important first-movement exposition repeat....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2013

DEBUSSY La Mer. Images. Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

Anima Eterna’s ‘instruments of the period’ policy has come a long way since those early days in the 1980s when...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2013

BRITTEN Symphony for Cello and Orchestra

Given the number of recordings of Britten’s Cello Symphony already out there, it is good that these latest two should...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2013

BRAHMS Symphony No 1

Hard to believe, I know, but the high-profile September 1971 Edinburgh Festival concert from which the contents of this DVD...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2013

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

‘He is a most sympathetic conductor, never clever or perfunctory, never self-conscious…it’s all there, GENUINE, enough of it for other...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2013

BRAHMS Serenades Nos 1 & 2

It would be difficult to imagine two Serenades that inhabit such utterly different worlds, the First mostly carefree and ebullient,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2013

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 2 BRAHMS Rinaldo, Op 50

‘A gross enormity, an immense wounded snake unwilling to die, but writhing in its last agonies,’ said a critic of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2013

BARBER Cello Concerto & Sonata

There are three hits here on one CD. The Cello Sonata dates from 1932, when Barber was a student at...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 02/2013

The English Cathedral Series: St Edmundsbury Cathedral

David Humphreys, formerly assistant organist at St Edmundsbury and now moved up the road (as it were) to Peterborough, concentrates...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2013

Bach and Beyond, Part 1

The backbone of this programme is the combination of the two most musically demanding of Bach’s Partitas – the second...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2013

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