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BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Jansons)

Previously only available in BR-Klassik’s set of Jansons’s recordings of Symphonies Nos 3, 4 and 6-9, reviewed by Rob Cowan...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2021

BERG Violin Concerto (Gil Shaham)

All three of these performances are live, the Violin Concerto and Seven Early Songs captured in 2018, while the Three...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2021

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Honeck)

Grafting local vines on to European rootstock is how the great American orchestras were first established and how many continue...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2021

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 7. The Creatures of Prometheus (von der Goltz)

Right from the generously spread opening chord, this is a Seventh with its roots in the 18th century, evoking a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2021

BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin. Suite No 2 (Dausgaard)

Listening to Bartók’s chilling ‘pantomime grotesque’ The Miraculous Mandarin – complete – in a performance as good as this one...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2021

CPE BACH 'Beyond the Limits' Complete String Symphonies

‘Beyond the Limits’ is the title of this album; and anyone who imagines CPE Bach as a diligent plodder at...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2021

Proust, Le Concert Retrouvé

On July 1, 1907, Marcel Proust hosted a private concert at the Ritz in Paris in honour of Gaston Calmette,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2021

PUCKETT; SPEARS; TULEV The Tower and the Garden

The Crossing are a leading chamber choir, comprising 24 singers, who won Grammy Awards in 2018 and 2019 for two...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2021

PHILLIPS The Grey Land

Joseph C Phillips Jr’s immersive multimedia opera The Grey Land takes its title from Richard Wright’s novel of alienation, Native...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2021

Bruits (Imani Winds)

Musicians have felt an increasing urgency over the past year to become engaged with issues of social justice. Imani Winds...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 04/2021

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