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MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Nelsons)

The Vienna Philharmonic rarely has call for a saxophone quintet. Another incidental pleasure of this Salzburg Festival matinee film is...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019

HONEGGER Symphony No 2 SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

The Baltic Chamber Orchestra from St Petersburg follow up their canny pairing of Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony greatly...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019

The Orchestral Music of Jonathan Dove

In a passionate and well-observed booklet note, Timothy Redmond asks why no recording of Jonathan Dove’s orchestral music has existed...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019

DESSNER El Chan. Concerto for 2 Pianos

The Labèque sisters have dipped their collective musical feet in minimalist waters many times in recent years, as heard on...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2019

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 6 & 9 (Nelsons)

As with previous instalments in Andris Nelsons’s Bruckner cycle (Symphonies Nos 3, 4 and 7), this latest addition combines performances...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2019

BRAHMS Violin Concerto. Double Concerto (T Yang, G Schwabe)

The coupling of Brahms’s Violin Concerto with the Double Concerto isn’t that common on disc but they’re a natural pairing,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2019

BARTÓK The Wooden Price; The Miraculous Mandarin

I wish this disc could have accommodated a complete Miraculous Mandarin rather than just the Concert Suite, particularly as Susanna...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2019

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos, Vol 2 (Fabio Bonizzoni)

Fabio Bonizzoni’s first volume of Bach harpsichord concertos with La Risonanza (9/18) gave no clue as to how many would...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto (Maxim Vengerov)

Watch closely during the audience shots on this taping of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s Lucerne Festival debut in 2017 and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019

ANDRE hij (Chiacchiarini)

In the 1960s, ever speculative, Stockhausen proposed the idea of ‘coloured silence’. With, say, a wind player, this meant blowing...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2019

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