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MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Feltz; Gergiev; Nézet Séguin)

One day in 1909, Mahler arrived at the new offices of his publisher in a terrible flap. He’d jumped off...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2020

Music for my Love, Vol 3

Vol 3 of Toccata Classics’ enormously impressive, moving commemorative project (honouring Yodit Tekle, pictured on the cover; for the background,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020

VLADIGEROV Bulgarian Suite. Symphonic Bulgarian Dances

I do hope that this fine new recording will mean that Pancho Vladigerov’s music becomes better known. There are recordings,...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020

SIBELIUS Symphony No 2. King Christian II Suite (Rouvali)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s recording of Sibelius’s First Symphony and En saga (3/19) received a string of accolades following its release last...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 (Muti)

There are American ensembles with a more sustained Shostakovich tradition than the Chicago Symphony but the present recording, taken from...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2020

SEREBRIER Symphonic BACH Variations

While consistently light-textured in its scoring for string orchestra, each movement of José Serebrier’s Flute Concerto with Tango (2008) has...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Gardiner)

A mere matter of months after issuing Symphonies Nos 2 and 4 with the LSO, John Eliot Gardiner completes the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

SCHOENBERG Violin Concerto. Verklärte Nacht (Isabelle Faust)

Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto can be heard as his typically defiant response to a period of exceptional stress and strain. In...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2020

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 1 (Anna Fedorova)

Were this my introduction to Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto, I would come away well pleased. It seems to tick all...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2020

MOZART Piano Concertos Vol 5 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

In what might from the outside look rather like a sweeping-up exercise, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Gábor Takács-Nagy’s Manchester Camerata take...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

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