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SCHUBERT Symphonies Vol 4 (Gardner)

Edward Gardner’s complete Schubert cycle reaches its conclusion with this fourth volume, marking the culmination of a project that began...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 04/2025

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto 2 SHOR Piano Concerto (Behzod Abduraimov)

Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto turns up more and more these days in competitions, concerts and recording sessions. That’s all to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2025

MARSALIS Blues Symphony (Bignamini)

The cover art boasts a shot of the marquee of the Paradise Theatre that stands in what was once the...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2025

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Järvi)

Should the opening trumpet solo be more ‘Last Post’ than ‘Reveille’? I am never entirely sure – it is decidedly...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2025

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Bychkov)

The eight unison horns at the outset at once suggest a human drama – man and nature in one accord...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2025

Dies irae: Liszt, Rachmaninov (Dmitry Masleev)

At first glance this would seem to be a relatively routine affair: three barnstorming repertoire staples, only two of them...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2025

SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No 3 (Janes Ehnes)

There’s a wonderful anecdote about Paris-based Spanish violin virtuoso Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908) that was told by the wife of Fritz...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2025

KORNGOLD Violin Concerto STRAUSS Violin Sonata (Liya Petrova)

Readers of a certain age will remember when there were only two options for a recording of Korngold’s Violin Concerto...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2025

KABALEVSKY; SCHUMANN Cello Concertos (Theodor Lyngstad)

A shrewd and compelling coupling for a debut album in the solo spot. Theodor Lyngstad is the principal cello of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2025

HAHN Le Dieu bleu (Corlay)

When Serge Diaghilev commissioned Le Dieu bleu (‘The Blue God’), he was hoping to repeat the success Sheherazade had enjoyed...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2025

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