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DUTILLEUX Symphopny No 2. Timbres, espace, mouvement

Dutilleux’s Second Symphony (1957 59) has not quite achieved standard-repertoire status despite a fair number of commercial recordings. Its distinctive...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2017

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 WAGNER Parsifal: Good Friday Music

Since Furtwängler and the Vienna Philharmonic took the Romantic Symphony on a tour of Germany in the autumn of 1951,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2017

BRAHMS Violin Concerto. Piano Concerto No 1

This latest issue on the Royal Concertgebouw’s own label is a celebration of its honorary conductor, Bernard Haitink. As a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017

BRAHMS Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Mark Elder sets the scene with great potency in the D minor First Concerto, conjuring a whole range of emotions,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017

Homage à Boulez

There were those who used the occasion of Pierre Boulez’s death in 2016 to reiterate the same-old-same-old narrative about the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2017

BLACKFORD Better Angels

Having made his reputation in film and television, Richard Blackford (b1954) later enjoyed success with several major choral works. Instrumental...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10

A highly original concept, the subtext: music and dictatorship. As Michael Sanderling himself implies in a persuasive preface to the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3. Fidelio Overture

Discreetly attentive to detail yet exalted in expression, a Festival Hall Pastoral from this team last January raised expectations that...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2017

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 5

When Lars Vogt’s recordings of Beethoven’s First and Second Piano Concertos with Simon Rattle and the CBSO were released in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2017

Concerti III

For the third instalment in their ‘Concerti’ series, the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo bring together three works, the first two written...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2017

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