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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 1 & 10 (Pletnev)

You would expect Pletnev – a complicated and elusive character at the best of times – to offer a radical...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2018

QIN Orchestral Works

From Debussy on, Western composers have sought inspiration from non-Western instruments. In the past couple of decades, this tendency has...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2018

PÄRT The Symphonies (Kaljuste)

‘Symphonist’ is not a description often applied to Arvo Pärt. Yet the four works contained on this disc (three of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2018

Mozart Live 1978

Could there have been a touch of Brendel-inspired whimsy about the idea of a concert marking the 222nd anniversary of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2018

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred

Riccardo Chailly’s debut as Music Director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in 2016 was Mahler’s gigantic Eighth Symphony, completing the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2018

MARTINSSON Presentiment

Yet again we are faced with recurrent questions surrounding stylistic ethics and the exclusivity of music about music. Rolf Martinsson’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018

KORNGOLD; MOZART Violin Concertos (Caroline Goulding)

Has any popular violin concerto had a shakier start in life than Korngold’s? Born into a post-war America where critics...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2018

GINASTERA Orchestral Works Vol 3 (Mena)

João Carlos Martins premiered Ginastera’s First Piano Concerto in 1961 and made the first recording in 1968 with Leinsdorf and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Jansons; Rattle)

The music of Bruckner has been increasingly prominent in the repertoire of Mariss Jansons and Simon Rattle over the past...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2018

BRAHMS Piano Concertos (Maltempo)

Brendel, Fleisher, Freire, Gilels, Graffman, Hough, Kovacevich, Lewis, Rubinstein, Serkin: 10 reasons why anyone contemplating recording the Brahms concertos should...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2018

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