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MOZART Violin Concerto No 3. Symphony No 41 (Julien Chauvin)

Le Concert de la Loge Olympique was the professional orchestra active in Paris in the 1780s, conducted by (among others)...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2022

MESSIAEN La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ. Poemes pour Mi. Chronochromie (Nagano)

Considered as a pocket history of Messiaen’s large-scale writing, this set could hardly be improved upon. We hear the composer’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2022

HARBISON Diotima. Symphony No 11

Diotima (1976) was John Harbison’s first orchestral work and the Sixth Symphony (2012) is his most recent (and, the composer...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2022

DEBUSSY; SCHOENBERG Pelléas et Mélisande

Here it would be nice to say we have two for the price of one: two versions of Pelléas and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2022

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Poschner)

This second instalment in Capriccio’s ambitious project to record all of the versions of the symphonies in the New Anton...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2022

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1 (Thielemann)

Ahead of the planned release of Christian Thielemann’s recording of Bruckner’s First Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in his...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2022

BRAHMS Violin Concerto (Oscar Shumsky)

‘The most astounding genius I have ever heard’, declared Leopold Stokowski after hearing the seven-year-old Oscar Shumsky, who made his...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022

BARBER; BRUCH; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Works for Violin (Sonoko Miriam Welde)

It may be more usual for a young artist to dip their first toes in the recording waters with a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2022

Christian Svarfvar: Infinite Bach

Purists will doubtless scoff at the idea of another album of recomposed Baroque music but there is some justification when...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2022

Lise Davidsen: Grieg

This album is something of an A&R executive’s dream: two Norwegian superstars – and exclusive artists for rival labels –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022

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