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Like all great musicians, Vladimir Jurowski trusts his own instincts implicitly, and on the whole I do, too. But there...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2013
Part new release, part reissue, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Lutosπawski symphony cycle provides a refined but often exciting take on an impressive...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2013
The performance of Symphonie espagnole is billed as departing from the way it’s generally played in the direction of being...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2013
The Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s invaluable survey of d’Indy’s orchestral scores here reaches Vol 5 and one of those few works...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2013
Pedestrian collaboration hampers Jian Wang in most of the First Concerto. Muhai Tang binds the music to the bar-line; and...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2013
When John-Edward Kelly first heard the name of Anders Eliasson – via another composer featured here, Sven-David Sandström – it...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2013
Jamie Walton’s latest anthology for Signum once again shows him to be a impressive performer in terms of technical acumen,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2013
During the early 1960s Gloria Coates discovered the glissando. No big deal there, you might think. Xenakis had already determined...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013
In his successive revisions to this, his textually most vexatious symphony, Bruckner bends the first movement towards a symphonic allegro...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2013
Guy Braunstein is a persuasive player who is soon to step down from his current position as concertmaster of the...
Reviewed in issue 06/2013
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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