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SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 (Jacobs)

Having given us a First and Sixth (2/19), René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra return to start filling in the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20

OSWALD Piano Concerto SAINT-SAENS Piano Concerto No 5 (van Steen)

Of the many short piano works by Henrique Oswald (1852-1931), Il neige is the best-known – and the one that...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20

MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 1-5 (Skride)

Baiba Skride ‘has this rare quality of discovering the music as we play’, says conductor Eivind Aadland. ‘I know that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 6-8 (Vashegyi)

In old age Haydn retained a soft spot for his ‘Times of Day’ trilogy, his first works for the Esterházy...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW20

HANDEL Concerti grossi Op 3 (Forck)

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, here under the directorship of Georg Kallweit, return in full vigour in this follow-up...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW20

GUARNIERI Choros I. Seresta

Camargo Guarnieri is one of Brazil’s most interesting composers. While Villa-Lobos is far more present in the public imagination, there...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW20

CRAMER Piano Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 6 (Shelley)

A full 16 years elapsed between the first and second volumes of Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players’ exploration...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20

BRAHMS Symphony No 4 (Dausgaard)

'The real purpose of using a small orchestra’, Thomas Dausgaard told Gramophone’s Andrew Mellor regarding his recording of Brahms’s Second...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW20

BORISOVA-OLLAS Angelus: Orchestral Works

Russian-born and resident in Sweden since 1993, Victoria Borisova-Ollas was a pupil of Nikolai Korndorf. He was the Soviet maverick...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW20

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 5 GOSSEC Symphonie (Roth)

Symphonist to the Revolution vs revolutionary symphonist: Les Siècles and their founder-maestro have put flesh on the bones of a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20

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