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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
BRAHMS Piano Concertos
This is a recording made at concerts Rudolf Buchbinder gave with Zubin Mehta and the VPO in the Goldener Saal...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2017
SCHOENBERG; BARTÓK Piano Concertos
For Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto to sound effective the listener must be able to feel utterly at home in the work,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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