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WEILL Symphony No 2. Violin Concerto (Tomás Kocsis)

No one ever needs to convince me of Kurt Weill’s importance in the great scheme of music. Not just in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2022

STRAVINSKY The Firebird. The Rite of Spring. Symphony in E flat (Jurowski)

The early evolution of Stravinsky from fledgling to Firebird feels like the most natural thing in the world as one...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2022

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 8 & 9 (Blomstedt. Jacobs)

Here’s an exercise in comparisons, and not necessarily the ones you might expect. Herbert Blomstedt makes his DG debut at...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2022

SCHOENBERG Kammersymphonie WEBERN Symphonie (Holliger)

The key works of early 20th-century modernism can often seem as challenging today as one imagines they were when new....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2022

RESPIGHI Pini di Roma. Impressioni brasiliane. Belkis, regina di Saba (Crudele)

As my recent Collection (3/22) demonstrated, we’re not exactly short of recordings of Respighi’s Pines of Rome. Most of them...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2022

REICH Reich/Richter

Although Steve Reich’s music is often compared with the visual paintings and sculptures of like-minded artists such as Sol LeWitt,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2022

MESSIAEN Oiseaux Exotiques RAVEL Piano Concerto SCHOENBERG Piano Concerto (Francesco Piemontesi)

Whether or not these three iconic 20th-century piano-orchestral masterpieces have previously appeared together on a single CD, it’s a wonderful...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2022

KOECHLIN The Seven Stars' Symphony (Matiakh)

Koechlin wrote his Seven Stars’ Symphony after belatedly seeing his first film, The Blue Angel, in 1933 at the age...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2022

'Haydn 2032, Vol 12: Les jeux et les plaisirs'

Giovanni Antonini alights upon three symphonies from the mid-1770s, a period during which opera was coming to occupy more of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2022

HARTMANN Orchestral Music

If only Thomas de Hartmann’s music was as consistently engrossing as his biography. A Ukrainian-born aristocrat, student of Arensky and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2022

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