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VASKS Distant Light. Piano Quartet. Summer Dances (Lintu)

Distant Light is surely the most-recorded violin concerto by a living composer, with almost enough versions listed on the streaming...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4. LESHNOFF Double Concerto (Honeck)

In a brief but perspicacious essay on the Tchaikovsky symphonies, Hans Keller argues that the composer’s ‘individual contribution to the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

STRAUSS Rosenkavalier Suite. Tod und Verklärung. Macbeth (Shui)

Following his well-regarded series of Debussy recordings for BIS, Lan Shui’s latest release finds the Hangzhou-born conductor equally at home...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra. Don Juan. Till Eulenspiegel

Here’s a handsome Straussian showcase from Krzysztof Urbański and the rebranded NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester – although these live recordings were...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 (Karabits)

It’s a while since someone had the bright idea of bagging a multi-maestro Shostakovich symphony cycle from Mikhail Pletnev’s Russian...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2020

SAWYERS Symphony No 4. Hommage to Kandinsky (Woods)

Like all great symphonists, Philip Sawyers approaches symphonic form from a different direction in each work. Nos 1 (2004; 2/11)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Vänskä)

I might have predicted that this of all the Mahler symphonies would chime with Osmo Vänskä’s very particular gifts as...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2020

Beethoven's World: Salieri, Hummel, Vorisek

‘Beethoven’s World’ proclaims the jewel case of an entertaining, offbeat programme no one could have predicted. Active in and around...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2020

GROVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Although both symphonies by the ethnomusicologist, broadcaster and composer Eivind Groven (1901-77) have been recorded before, this is the first...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020

GLASS; STRAVINSKY Violin Concertos (David Nebel)

There’s an urgency to David Nebel’s performance of Stravinsky’s Concerto I’m not sure I’ve heard in this work before, even...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

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