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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

LUTOSŁAWSKI Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 (Lintu)

Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra return to the Lutosławski symphonies (Nos 1 and 4 were reviewed 2/19)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2020

LISZT Dante Symphony. Tasso (Karabits)

Written in 1857, Liszt’s Künstlerfestzug was originally planned as a grand pièce d’occasion to accompany the unveiling in Weimar of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

KOECHLIN; POULENC 'Couleurs' (Artur Pizarro)

Thomas Rösner’s new recording with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra presents two works each by a pair of 20th-century French composers...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020

HAYDN Symphonies, Vol 8 (Antonini)

Which way will they turn next? Giovanni Antonini and his Italian period-instrument band here present an early, a middle and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

HANDEL Concerti Grossi, Op 6, Nos 7-12 (Forck)

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

GLASS Violin Concerto No 2 (Piotr Plawner)

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

CHOPIN Piano Concertos (Yundi)

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

CHERUBINI Discoveries

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

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Dausgaard)

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

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