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Albrecht Mayer: Longing for Paradise

In this programme, Albrecht Mayer asks how composers react ‘when faced with the reality of war and a destroyed homeland....

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

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Richard II. Songs of Travel (Yates)

When, towards the end of the Second World War, the BBC Drama Department asked Vaughan Williams to provide the incidental...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2019

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben (Petrenko. Søndergård)

These two new releases see two conductors tackle Ein Heldenleben at different stages of their relationships with orchestras. Vasily Petrenko’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2019

SIBELIUS Symphony No 1 (Nézet-Séguin)

Just Sibelius’s First Symphony? That is exceptionally short measure for a CD. The ratio of quality over quantity needed to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019

ROTA Music for the films of Federico Fellini (Chailly)

Enter the extraordinary world of Federico Fellini – a world where childhood dreams strive to lose touch with reality, where...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019

RAVEL Lucerne Festival 2018 (Chailly)

‘To embody the expressive totality of dance solely through sound’ is how the rather grand booklet notes describe the aim...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019

Gateways

Qigang Chen is something of a sound magician. In fact, the day this CD arrived I’d invested in and just...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2019

NIELSEN Violin Concerto (Lisa Jacobs)

Lisa Jacobs plays with firm tone and admirable technical control in these live performances, and I’m particularly taken with the...

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

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (Kitajenko)

The wildest thing about this tour of Mussorgsky’s gallery is Ilya Repin’s portrait of the composer on the cover. It...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2019

MOZART Symphony No 40 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (Nelsons)

Last year Accentus released the complete inaugural concert of Andris Nelsons as Gewandhaus-kapellmeister (11/18) and it’s a shame that their...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019

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