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TERTERIAN Symphonies 3 & 4
Avet Rubeni Terterian’s relatively early death in 1994 may not be the only reason we haven’t heard more of him....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2019
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 (Jansons)
One of these days a Mariss Jansons recording will arrive that will confound my expectations. This, alas, is not it....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 4 (Noseda)
It’s the symphony that might or might not have recalibrated Shostakovich’s future and it’s still one of the trickiest to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019
SCHUMANN Symphonies 2 & 4 (Gardiner. Herreweghe)
Two veteran conductors from the period-instrument movement revisit Schumann’s symphonies with modern-instrument orchestras. Coincidentally, in reviewing Philippe Herreweghe’s earlier traversals...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2019
PROKOFIEV Sinfonia Concertante. Cello Sonata
These exceptionally beautiful reappraisals are likely to divide listeners. Bruno Philippe’s command of the instrument can scarcely be gainsaid –...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2019
MESSIAEN LAscension, Le Tombeau resplendissant (Järvi)
The received wisdom is that Messiaen grew up at the keyboard, so to speak, but according to his teacher Marcel...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2019
MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Fischer)
Rather as he did for his controversial (and somewhat disappointing) account of Das Lied von der Erde, Adám Fischer offers...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019
LÓPEZ BELLIDO Symphonic Canvas
In his detailed booklet note, Jimmy López Bellido writes that the First Symphony (2016) was commissioned as part of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2019
GLASS Symphony No 5 (Wachner)
Premiered at the Salzburg Festival in August 1999 as a latter-day ‘Ode to Joy’ to mark the close of the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2019
DVORÁK; MARTINU Piano Concertos (Ivo Kahánek)
Among Bohuslav Martinů’s five piano concertos, his Fourth (1956) is arguably the most original and inventive, and certainly the most...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
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This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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