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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: The Opening Concert

Six years late, around €500m over budget and bathed in a soap-opera-worthy cauldron of lawsuits and recriminations, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie was...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2017

STEINBERG Violin Concerto., Symphony No 4

Maximilian Steinberg is usually remembered as Dmitry Shostakovich’s composition teacher at the Petrograd Conservatory. Shostakovich’s youthful Symphony No 1 was...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2017

SCHUBERT ‘The Finished “Unfinished”’: Symphony No 8, D759 (reconstr Venzago)

Mario Venzago explains that nobody knows why Schubert left the Unfinished unfinished. In fact, in the booklet, he persuasively expounds...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2017

OPAŁKA Emerge

As both the recording’s title and the subtitle of one of its works suggest, ‘Emerge’ also appropriately signals the arrival...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2017

MUSSORGSKY A Night on the Bare Mountain PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky

The variably transliterated Dmitry Kitaenko continues his Indian summer with this non-standard programme of three distinctly malleable masterpieces. Only the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2017

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 25 & 26

No fevered D minor Sturm und Drang or sentimental Elvira Madigan for Francesco Piemontesi’s debut Linn (and Mozart concerto) recording....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH; MARTINŮ Cello Concertos No 2

Martinů completed his Second Cello Concerto in January 1945, shortly before commencing work on the Fourth Symphony. In comparison with...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Jansons)

‘Mahler said his time would come – the question now, for me, is when it will go.’ There are so...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2017

IVES Three Places in New England. New England Holidays

'Unidiomatic’, I wrote in my notes on first hearing Ludovic Morlot’s interpretation of Three Places in New England (the opening...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH; GUBAIDULINA Violin Concertos

This is a unique coupling from a young Dutch violinist who entered the lists in 2005 with a fervent all-Elgar...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2017

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