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SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy. Symphony No 2 (Falletta)

It doesn’t at all surprise me that Scriabin once thought of calling his Poem of Ecstasy ‘Poème orgiaque’ or ‘Orgiastic...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 (Noseda )

Over a concentrated few days in May 2004, Valery Gergiev conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in an incendiary Prokofiev symphony...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2023

PALUMBO Woven Lights

If Italian new music seems a rather less adventurous place now than in previous decades, the emergence of composers such...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023

LEVANON; MARTIN; POULENC; SHOSTAKOVICH Works For Pianos and Orchestra

MultiPiano Ensemble’s new album features new arrangements of works by Martin and Shostakovich approved by the composers’ families as well...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023

KAPUSTIN Piano Concerto No 5. Concerto Op 104. Sinfonietta Op 49 (Frank Dupree)

The astonishing Frank Dupree here continues his Kapustin odyssey with the fifth of the composer’s six piano concertos, and two...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

HAYDN Complete Symphonies, Vol. 27 (Klumpp)

Johannes Klumpp continues sweeping up the remaining early symphonies in the Haydn cycle inaugurated by Thomas Fey almost a quarter...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023

HANDEL Concerti grossi Op 3; Op 6 (Dantone)

Ravenna-based Accademia Bizantina and harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone have never been monogamous with record companies – their prolific discography has been...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (1887 Version. Poschner)

In 1887, after three years of work, Bruckner sent the completed score of the Eighth Symphony to the conductor Hermann...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto (Veronika Eberle)

My discovery of this extraordinarily recreative take on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto coincided with a period when the notion of ‘presentism’...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2023

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 (Boris Giltburg)

The Third and Fourth Concertos round out what has been an impressive Beethoven cycle. Let’s start with the conducting. Vasily...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023

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