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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade (Vänskä)

The first release by Curtis Studio, a new label founded by the Curtis Institute of Music, brings a warm and...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2023

REINECKE ‘The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 85’ (Simon Callaghan)

I last encountered Simon Callaghan in Vol 76 of Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series playing Rheinberger and Scholz (8/18). This...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2023

PRICE Songs of the Oak (Jeter)

This third instalment in Naxos’s survey of Florence Price’s orchestral music presents four major works. The two concert overtures might...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2023

PADE ‘The Orchestral Album’ (Gustafsson)

At last the spotlight of revisionism is swinging its beam towards Else Marie Pade (1924-2016). The sidelined Danish composer gets...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2023

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3, 4 & 5 (Luisi)

These are quite marvellous – and in the case of the Fourth Symphony, incendiary – performances. There’s something about the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2023

NETZEL; SANDSTRÖM; TARRODI Piano Concertos (Peter Friis Johansson)

Evidently a pianist keen to extend the repertoire through exploring its byways and extending its compass, Peter Friis Johansson demonstrates...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Bernard)

Here is another recording that will mean more to attendees of the associated live event than those seeking a general...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2023

Christian-Pierre La Marca: Legacy

Haydn’s cello concertos may top and tail the running order but this programme hinges around the figure of Nicola Porpora...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

HAYDN 'Symphonies, Vol 13 – Hornsignal’ (Antonini)

Eight years, 13 volumes and 41 symphonies into his ambitious ‘Haydn 2032’ project, Giovanni Antonini selects three works in which...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

MILHAUD La Création du Monde ELGAR Enigma Variations (Ward)

The Maastricht-based Philharmonie Zuidnederland has been building a notable discography during recent years, with its latest release on Fuga Libera...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023

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