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BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Shani)

This is as fine a recorded account of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony as I’ve heard for some time, both in terms...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Dausgaard. Poschner)

These releases of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony offer a fascinating contrast, BIS’s recording giving us the well-known second version of the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2023

BRAHMS The Four Symphonies (Sanderling)

This set’s opening gambit is an account of the First Symphony that’s both gemütlich and gripping – no easy feat....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2023

ABRAHAMSEN Left, Alone

Hans Abrahamsen’s music is always divining, assimilating, shaking down – seeking the truth by returning to the same places over...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023

YSAŸE Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Hilary Hahn)

Unaccompanied violin music relies for its effect on a player whose approach to the instrument treats athleticism and acute tonal...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2023

Teatro Sant'Angelo - Vivaldi, Chelleri & Ristori

The Teatro Sant’Angelo was the principal theatre in Venice with which Vivaldi was associated, as both composer and manager. It...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2023

SPONTINI La Vestale (Rousset)

Following Olimpie (7/19), this is Bru Zane’s second recording of an opera by Spontini. La Vestale reached the stage of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2023

PUCCINI Tosca (Chailly. Viotti)

Two Toscas, two very different shows – and two valuable records of projects giving Puccini a spring clean. In Milan,...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2023

MERCADANTE Il proscritto (Rizzi)

Mercadante’s Il proscritto was first performed in Naples, in 1842. Dividing opinion at the time (Mercadante was accused of being...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023

ENGEL Grete Minde (Skryleva)

Who, you might be forgiven for asking, was Eugen Engel (1875-1943)? As Orfeo’s excellent booklet explains, he was a Berlin-based...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2023

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