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RESPIGHI Orchestral transcriptions (Neschling)

While Ottorino Respighi’s cinematic ‘Roman Trilogy’ pushes for a dramatic use of vivid orchestral colours, his various visits to other...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2021

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Rattle)

The London Symphony Orchestra have a kind of ownership on this piece. The era of André Previn and his and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2021

MOZART The complete Multipiano Concertos; Oboe Concertos

Two discs of works by Mozart for solo instruments and orchestra, but with none of the usual suspects – and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2021

MAHLER Symphony No 10 (Vänskä)

After an uncertain start, Osmo Vänskä’s Mahler cycle has been winning wider acclaim. No doubt it’s the more forward-looking works...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2021

CARTER Ballets (Rose)

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project has been making a signal contribution to American music, with this new disc no exception....

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2021

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

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