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Jet Set! Classical Glitterati

The titular ‘glitterati’ are a disparate group of musicians linked only by the fact that they travelled and worked away...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2019

The Golden Violin: Music of the 20s

The title refers to a ‘golden age of violin playing’, nebulously defined in the booklet by ‘the artistry of the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2019

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 7 & 9

The Seventh and Ninth Symphonies of Vaughan Williams are perhaps the least likely to find their way into concert programmes;...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (Petrenko)

Pierre Boulez – no conductor of Tchaikovsky – used to give performances that rendered a pocket score redundant. There was...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto. Fantasies (Guy Braunstein)

‘Why compose violin and orchestra rhapsodies after Tchaikovsky’s opera and ballet music?’ asks Guy Braunstein in his booklet note to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2019

TAVENER The Protecting Veil

This disc begins with a beautiful reading by Olwyn Fouéré of Yeats’s heartbreaking ‘The Cloths of Heaven’, a poem Tavener...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2019

SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No 1 ZEMLINSKY Lyric Symphony

This is a very attractive pairing of two early 20th-century works distinguished by the opulence of their orchestral textures. Szymanowski’s...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2019

SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen Suite. Spring Song. Suite from “Belshazzar’s Feast”

Sakari Oramo has recorded precious little Sibelius since his time in Birmingham but don’t think the repertoire on this disc...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2019

SCHUMANN Symphonies (Thielemann. Jansons)

Christian Thielemann’s 60th birthday present to himself is a set of the four Schumann symphonies, which he toured with the...

Reviewed by Libby McPhee in issue: 07/2019

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 1 & 5 (Holliger)

Having impressed earlier this year with a great Great C major (2/19), Heinz Holliger and his Swiss chamber players go...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2019

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