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BRAHMS Complete Symphonies

Twenty years ago, much was made of an attempt by Sir Charles Mackerras to recover a performing tradition familiar to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 - Elbphilharmonie First Recording

These recordings are the first to be made in the new 2100-seat concert hall that sits at the heart of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2017

BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique

Emmanuel Krivine’s account of the Symphonie fantastique, sensitively filmed at the Cité de la Musique in 2014 during La Chambre...

Reviewed by David Allen in issue: 04/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2, 4 & 7. Overtures

I’ve always thought of Beethoven’s Second as the first stage on his revolutionary symphonic journey, as much a leap forwards...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2017

TELEMANN; CORELLI; BACH Concertos

This is, I think, a first release from Höör Barock, the orchestra founded in 2012 to perform at the festival...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2017

ADÈS Asyla. Brahms. Polaris

Any route taken through the music of Thomas Adès sooner or later must confront the irresistible force and power of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017

Perspectives

The American Brass Quintet has gone through many changes of personnel over the decades, but the high quality of the...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2017

North Texas Wind Symphony : Discoveries. Inventions. Mackey

The American concert band has a sound distinctively its own and a virtuosity that has attracted mainstream composers since the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2017

HELLERMANN Three Weeks in Cincinnati in December

Never mind that the title of William Hellermann’s Three Weeks in Cincinnati in December has nothing to do with the...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2017

HARBACH Orchestral Music vol 3

Barbara Harbach has nurtured a career as a harpsichordist, organist and teacher, but she’s also a prolific composer whose large...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2017

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