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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

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1-5 (Savall)

We know a lot about how Beethoven composed at the keyboard, and right from the clipped, slashed and rolled tutti...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Concertos (Bavouzet)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet first crossed my radar in 2005 with a striking Liszt recital on MDG that contained, among other gems,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW20

SCHMIDT Complete Symphonies (Järvi)

Deutsche Grammophon’s booklet note for this new recording arguably exaggerates the neglect of Franz Schmidt (1874-1939) and his four symphonies,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW20

WEINBERG Symphonies – Nos 2 & 21, Kaddish (Gražinytė-Tyla)

The UK premiere of Symphony No 21 in Symphony Hall last November was a watershed moment for Weinberg’s reputation. It...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2019

Russian Colours

The small and perfectly formed have come into their own during the pandemic with new and existing chamber arrangements making...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2020

Extra Time

Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima have had a run of snappy album titles in recent years – ‘The Italian Job’,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No 2 (Jan Vogler)

A brand-new Cello Concerto – one piece, three composers, ‘three continents’. As Jan Vogler, the commissioner, puts it: ‘I’m a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2020

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