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TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6, ‘Pathétique’ (Järvi)

Paavo Järvi’s Tchaikovsky is undoubtedly a painstaking labour of love. Every single detail has been thought through and is expressed...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 01/2022

SCHACHT Symphonies, Vol 2 (Schmalfuss)

Why haven’t I heard of Theodor von Schacht until now? A very skeletal biography for the similarly uninitiated: born in...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2022

RÓZYCKI Violin Concerto. Works with Violin ( Ewelina Nowicka)

>Ludomir Różycki (1883-1953) is far from a household name even in Poland. Józef Kański, in his useful booklet notes, points...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2022

PIERNÉ Ratmuntcho. Cydalise Et Le Chèvre-Pied Suites

The two Ramuntcho suites derive from Pierné’s incidental music for a play by Pierre Loti, first staged in 1908, which...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2022

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

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