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VILLA-LOBOS Symphonies Nos 8, 9 & 11

These symphonies, composed between 1950 and 1955, are fascinatingly paradoxical. All three are lavishly orchestrated and teem with activity, yet...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2017

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto (Esther Yoo)

I happened to miss Esther Yoo’s DG debut disc of Sibelius and Glazunov concertos. On the basis of this all-Tchaikovsky...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 1 (Gimeno)

It’s more than 10 years since Pentatone issued a recording of Shostakovich’s First Symphony, a distinguished effort from Vladimir Jurowski...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2017

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 1 & 7

Tugan Sokhiev has impressed me in the past – his Tchaikovsky Fourth with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2017

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3

Trpčeski and Petrenko are a tried-and-tested team, and their Prokofiev recordings are every bit as polished and satisfying as I...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2017

POTTER Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4

This is only the second CD ever devoted to Cipriani Potter, though he was a significant and distinguished figure during...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2017

NYMAN Symphonies Nos 2 & 5

Eyebrows were raised in 2014 when Michael Nyman declared his aim during the next few years to produce not just...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2017

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 3 & 5

The Potsdamers’ disc of Mendelssohn’s Symphonies Nos 1 and 4 (10/16) left Peter Quantrill unexcited. My own reactions to its...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Vänskä)

Robert von Bahr’s label must be one of the few to have ducked the release of a Mahler cycle (at...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Haitink)

It is only 10 years since Bernard Haitink launched the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s in-house label with a not dissimilar account...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2017

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