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REGER Violin Concerto

This is a fascinating slant on an effective arrangement, though the unhelpfully reverberant recording rather mitigates against total enjoyment. In...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

PINTSCHER Bereshit. Uriel. Songs from Solomon's Garden

I’d read chatter on the internet talking up Matthias Pintscher’s 2012 Bereshit, his 30-minute composition for large ensemble, as a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2017

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake

Pictures at an exhibition grace the cover of this Pictures at an Exhibition, the result of a collaboration between Gustavo...

Reviewed by David Allen in issue: 02/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Casadesus)

In November 2016 Mahler’s manuscript score of the Resurrection sold for the highest sum ever paid for such a document....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2017

GURETZKY Cello Concertos

The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen is no joking matter. Named after the musicians that gave London’s first public concerts...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2017

Sol Gabetta: Live

Sol Gabetta’s handling of Martinů’s life-affirming First Cello Concerto (1930 55), which over a 25 year period grew from a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. The Noon Witch

With this live recording of the Ninth, Marcus Bosch is close to concluding his Dvořák cycle for Coviello. As in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 STRAUSS Don Quixote

The headline act in this January 2016 Munich concert was the cellist Yo-Yo Ma as the eponymous hero of Richard...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2017

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Thielemann)

This is the second version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony on DVD and Blu-ray disc conducted by Christian Thielemann to appear...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

Sakari Oramo’s recent Ostrobothnian CO version of Britten’s Frank Bridge Variations (Alba, 9/16) served up plenty of food for thought....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2017

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