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Last year the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin made their debut on Pentatone (hopping over from Harmonia Mundi) with the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020
Subtitled American Four Seasons, Glass’s Violin Concerto No 2 deviates from Vivaldi’s well-known work in that each movement avoids portraying...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2020
Yundi has been associated with Chopin ever since he became the youngest-ever winner of the eponymous competition in Warsaw in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2020
Before one gets too excited at the tagline ‘9 world premiere recordings’ on this all-Cherubini disc from Riccardo Chailly and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020
The word ‘chivalrous’ invariably comes to mind with the opening measures of Bruckner’s Sixth: knights errant galloping towards new adventures,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2020
Since 1935, when both the Linz and Vienna editions of Bruckner’s First Symphony were published by Robert Haas, conductors and...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020
It’s unfortunate timing for Hyperion that its new disc of the Symphonie fantastique follows hot on the heels of Les...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020
Justin Heinrich Knecht’s five-movement Portrait musical de la Nature, ou Grande Simphonie (1783) begins with an evocation of Arcadian bliss...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020
To make Beethoven’s Fifth sound fresh seems a Herculean task, yet that’s what Teodor Currentzis accomplishes here in a relentlessly...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020
To embark on a second recording of the St Matthew Passion 20 or so years after an admired reading with...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2020
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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