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Journeys: Orchestral Music from Five Continents

Since the Norwegian Radio Orchestra regularly plays at the concert celebrating the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, outgoing chief...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2021

WEBER Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (Ronald Brautigam)

Weber and Brautigam are a very fine match and it seems remarkable that this is the first period-instrument recording of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2021

Bolette Roed: Vivaldi's Seasons

Recorder players haven’t been too poorly served when it comes to concertos by Vivaldi, given that not only did he...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2021

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 4 & 6 (Pappano)

Set down at the Barbican the evening before the UK’s Covid lockdown for concert halls and theatres in March 2020,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2021

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 (Järvi)

Paavo Järvi and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra continue their exploration of Tchaikovsky with the neglected Second Symphony and the iconic...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2021

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben. Burleske (Bertrand Chamayou)

The two performances on this often remarkable album were recorded almost three years apart, with Heldenleben taped live in Rome,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2021

SIMPSON Symphonies Nos 5 & 6

The year 1972 was a cracking one for symphonies – more especially for what might be called symphonies against the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2021

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 (Inbal)

You would expect a seasoned Mahlerian such as Eliahu Inbal to offer an emotive response to this extraordinary symphony but...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2021

RÓZYCKI; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos (Janusz Wawrowsk)

The press release for this disc reads like a wartime thriller. A violin concerto, composed during the summer of 1944...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2021

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 (Rouvali)

These days Finnish or Finnish-trained conductors come in all shapes and sizes. That said, the boisterous physicality of Santtu-Matias Rouvali...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2021

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