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RACHMANINOV Symphonies Nos 2 & 3. The Isle of the Dead (Nézet‑Séguin)

As with the first instalment of Nézet-Séguin’s symphonic Rachmaninov (the First Symphony and the Symphonic Dances – 2/21), there’s a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2023

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Job. Old King Cole. The Running Set

Already available separately as a digital-only EP, Andrew Manze’s RLPO account of Vaughan Williams’s towering Job: A Masque for Dancing...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2023

TELEMANN Schwanengesang - The Last Orchestral Works

When compared with the two other Ouvertüre movements on the first disc, the Suite in D, TWV55:D21, is clearly the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 08/2023

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 LISZT Mazeppa (Mehta)

BR-Klassik continues to mine its archive for concerts to release on disc and has dug back to 2013 for this...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2023

TCHAIKOVSKY Orchestral Works (Chauhan)

Alpesh Chauhan’s Tchaikovsky album with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra came as a surprise – the choice of repertoire is...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 08/2023

Pierre Sancan: A Musical Tribute

The music of Pierre(-Charles) Sancan (1916-2008) is rarely heard. Though a much-revered figure in his native France as a composer,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 15, 16 & 17 (Claire Huangci)

Fancy starting the day with a burst of sunlight, whatever the weather? Try Mozart’s Concerto No 16 in D, K451,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2023

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 (Kossenko)

Having created a work as perfect as the Italian Symphony, most composers would have sat happily back and thought ‘job...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2023

RAUTAVAARA. MARTINŮ Piano Concertos Nos 3 (Olli Mustonen)

Although written half a century apart, the Third Piano Concertos by Martinů and Rautavaara have enough in common, conceptually and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2023

MAHLER; STRAUSS; WAGNER 'Liebestod'

The topic of love and death unifies the works on this disc, yielding a programme that sits better conceptually than...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2023

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