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MAHLER Symphony No. 5 (Payare)

The sparkiest Mahler of recent years has not come from the usual suspects. Alexandre Bloch’s Orchestre National de Lille immortalised...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2023

LUTYENS; MACONCHY; WALLEN Works for Piano and Orchestra

Elizabeth Maconchy composed three works for piano and orchestra, including two concertinos (Lorelt, 1/12; Lyrita, 6/22). Dialogue (1940 41) lies...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 101 & 103 (Järvi)

The secret of comedy is all about – wait for it – timing. Joseph Haydn knew this and so too...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2023

DEBUSSY Jeux STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra (Roth)

François-Xavier Roth has released recordings of both of these works before – the Strauss recorded a decade ago with the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2023

BRUCH; PRICE Violin Concertos (Randall Goosby)

You can absolutely hear why Randall Goosby has been turning heads with his open-hearted, generous ‘school of Perlman’ delivery. There’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2023

BRIAN Symphonies Nos 8, 9, 22 & 24 (Fredman)

With this marvellous archival release – specifically that of the Ninth (1951) – of BBC broadcasts conducted by Myer Fredman,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023

BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra (Canellakis)

The curtain-raiser somewhat eclipses the main event in this instance. Why we don’t hear more of Bartók’s Four Orchestral Pieces...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2023

Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem

Lionel Meunier and Ricercar producer Jérôme Lejeune were working together on Vox Luminis’s critically acclaimed recording of Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2023

Sarah Cahill: The Future is Female Vol 3

The third and final volume of Sarah Cahill’s ‘The Future is Female’ offers a chronologically wide-ranging selection of music composed...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 06/2023

WIEMANN I Give You My Home

Although advertised as a chamber opera – even a ‘site-specific’ chamber opera (of which more later) – I Give You...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023

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