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WOLF-FERRARI Complete Overtures & Intermezzi (Haider)

Eagle-eyed fans of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) will notice that no fewer than five numbers on this very likeable compendium have...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2021

WEINBERG Chamber Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 (Krimer)

This disc completes Rostislav Krimer’s survey of Weinberg’s chamber symphonies with the East-West Chamber Orchestra. As David Fanning rightly noted...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021

VIVALDI The Four Seasons (Francisco Fullana)

In October 2021 Gramophone updated its ‘Top 10 Vivaldi recordings’. Is there space among this shortlist for another Four Seasons?...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2021

SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 3 (Jinjoo Cho)

Korean violinist Jinjoo Cho joins forces with former Quatuor Ébène viola player Mathieu Herzog and his Appassionato (formerly Ensemble Appassionato)...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2021

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 2 SCHNITTKE Concerto for Piano and Strings (Franz-Welser-Möst)

Once Prokofiev resolved to remake himself as a Soviet composer in the 1930s his Second Symphony (1924 25) provided a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2021

MOZART Wind Concertos (Martin)

Having recorded the five violin concertos with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, the LSO now present a selection of the wind concertos. Szeps-Znaider...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021

LARCHER Symphony No. 2 'Kenotaph'. Die Nacht der Verlorenen

Best known for his chamber and vocal music (notably the highly regarded A Padmore Cycle – Harmonia Mundi, 6/14), Thomas...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2021

HAYDN Symphonies Vol 25 (Klumpp)

Having appointed Johannes Klumpp their new artistic director, the Heidelberger Sinfoniker, founded in 1993 by Thomas Fey, now undertake to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Haitink)

Shortly before his farewell concert performances of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic in August and September 2019, the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 4 & '6' (Gianluca Cascioli)

Harmonia Mundi, which celebrated Beethoven’s semiquincentenary with original-instrument performances of the five canonic concertos and Choral Fantasy with Kristian Bezuidenhout...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2021

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