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Notte Veneziana

This is a delightful collection. Xavier de Maistre plays the harp with infinite finesse and much delicacy of colour. He...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 07/2012

Accordion Concertos

The accordion tradition is flourishing in Denmark, if these distinctive and complementary discs are anything to go by – showcasing...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2012

VIEUXTEMPS Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2. Greeting to America

Vieuxtemps’s violin concertos are slowly getting the attention they deserve – on disc, at least – with Hyperion and Naxos...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:

TELEMANN The Autograph Scores

The latest Telemann release from Collegium Musicum 90 (devotedly funded by director Simon Standage from a prize awarded by the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2012

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 2 & 15

Will Shostakovich’s Fifteenth remain the last self-styled symphony to gain a permanent place in the orchestral repertoire? Despite its elusive...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2012

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Period brass – two each of Inventionshorns (with curved sliding crooks called ‘inventions’ inserted into the body of the instruments...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2012

MAHLER Symphony No 9

Justin Brown has talked of learning this symphony as a child from Horenstein’s 1953 recording, and there’s a loving, expansive,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2012

MAHLER Symphony No 2

About a third of the way through Robert Neumüller’s documentary, conductor Mariss Jansons offers the cameraman – and viewing audience...

Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: 07/2012

MAHLER Symphony No 3

The most recent instalment in Markus Stenz’s Mahler cycle with the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne is an improvement over their...

Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: 07/2012

MADERNA Complete Orchestral Works Vol 4

Whether by luck or design I can’t say, but the fourth volume of Arturo Tamayo’s cycle-in-progress of Bruno Maderna’s complete...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2012

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