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Leonard Pennario: The Complete RCA Album Collection

The pianist Leonard Pennario has never been ranked with the all-time greats. He died in 2008 but never achieved the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2019

Wilhelm Furtwängler: The Radio Recordings 1939-1945

Do you want this box? Yes, you do. Is it worth it? Again, yes, almost certainly, it is. Diehard Furtwängler...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019

FERGUSON; PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas

The subtitle of this disc, ‘World War II and Holocaust Inspired Sonatas’, raises a question: in what way were any...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2019

PERRACHIO 9 Poems. 25 Preludes (David Korevaar)

Luigi Perrachio (1883 1966) was born in Turin, where from 1925 he taught piano and later composition at the Conservatorio....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Zander)

Benjamin Zander’s detailed immersion in both the letter and the spirit of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony yielded a generally excellent live...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019

BAXTER Resistance

Laurence Vittes, in his review of Garth Baxter’s songs ‘Ask the Moon’ (5/18), rightly categorised his idiom as ‘simple, straightforward,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2019

SALONEN Works for Cello (Wilhelmina Smith; Yo-Yo Ma)

Wilhelmina Smith’s recording underlines one of the fundamental differences between these two composers born in Finland just six years apart....

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2019

WILSON Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Musical nationalism is once more a hot potato in Europe and particularly in Scotland, where certain corners of the SNP...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019

SMETANA Swedish Symphonic Poems (Svárovský)

Time was, about three decades back, that you knew what you were getting with a Naxos disc. You wouldn’t necessarily...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 (Elder)

Manchester can be an unaccommodating place in winter and the city’s own grey, off-Pennine damp hangs over this live January...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2019

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