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BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2, 7 & 9 (Noseda)
With these two albums, Gianandrea Noseda and the NSO of Washington DC conclude their Beethoven symphony cycle, and I’m left...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
BARTÓK The Wooden Prince. Divertimento. Romanian Folk Dances (Dausgaard)
Bartók was never fully content with The Wooden Prince and this final revision marks an end to his tinkering. It...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024
JS BACH Violin Concertos (Leonidas Kavakos)
In the booklet notes, Leonidas Kavakos is clearly keen for us to know that he has experimented with playing on...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2024
CPE BACH 'Instrumental Theatre of Effects'
Emanuel Bach, second son of JS, was famous for his rhapsodising at the clavichord in his Hamburg home. As the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024
ANDRES The Blind Banister
Unsurprisingly perhaps, the inquisitive, explorative and dynamic approach one hears in Timo Andres’s piano-playing also comes through in his own...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
CHOPIN Études (Yunchan Lim)
Ever since Yunchan Lim became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn Gold Medal in June 2022, the piano grapevine...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2024
Velvet Brown. Tuba
The repertoire on Velvet Brown’s fourth recording for Crystal is of such absorbing interest and the playing of such high...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Bernard)
David Bernard and his dedicated amateur orchestra continue their recorded traversal of the standard orchestral repertoire with this set of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
ROSNER Orchestral Music Vol 4 (Palmer)
Arnold Rosner’s extraordinary Requiem (A/20) was my Critics’ Choice for 2020, the third volume of his orchestral works (5/19) my...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024
KAYE Time is the Sea We Swim In
The compositional catalogue of New York-resident Debra Kaye runs to around 70 works, ranging from orchestral and instrumental works to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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