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MOZART Symphonies Nos 39-41 (Savall)

This is, in certain ways, a most peculiar project. Jordi Savall’s approach to Mozart’s three final symphonies bears a clear...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019

MARSALIS Violin Concerto. Fiddle Dance Suite (Benedetti)

A number of things become clearer as Wynton Marsalis’s Violin Concerto unfolds. First, that there’s a story to be told,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019

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

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