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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

FRANCK Le Chasseur maudit. Psyche. Les Eolides

While recordings of Franck’s Symphony in D minor are legion, complete versions of his extended tone poem Psyché, completed one...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020

FIBICH Symphony No 3 (Štilec)

This fifth release in Naxos’s series devoted to Zdeněk Fibich’s orchestral music brings us the composer’s Third Symphony, his last...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020

FELDMAN Coptic Light. String Quartet and Orchestra

Morton Feldman wasn’t one to over-indulge in theory. All the more interesting, then, to read a note on a sketch...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2020

BLISS; RUBBRA Piano Concertos (Piers Lane)

Here’s a terrific new version of the dashing Piano Concerto that Bliss wrote for Solomon, who gave the premiere at...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete works for piano trio, Vol 5 (Van Baerle Trio)

The Van Baerle Trio have reached the end of their Beethoven cycle with what one might perhaps call a ‘bonus...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9. Choral Fantasy (Heras-Casado)

While marginally beefed up from their recent recording of the Emperor Concerto (3/20), the Freiburg Barockorchester field a string section...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020

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