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TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker

The physical presentation of this Oehms Classics release in a standard slim jewel case isn’t going to win any prizes....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2017

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No1. Nutcracker Suite

Alexandra Dariescu has been garnering accolades for the past 10 years or so, and from this debut concerto disc I...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017

STRAUSS Elektra; Rosenkavalier - Suites

Given that the orchestra could be described as one of the key characters in Strauss’s Elektra, it is surprising that...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No 1. Symphony No 5

When it comes to the First Cello Concerto, the most obvious recent point of comparison is Alisa Weilerstein with the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

If you have your doubts about the various scored-up versions of Shostakovich’s string quartets for chamber orchestra, then Boris Giltburg’s...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017

SEARLE Symphonies Nos 3 & 5

If you want to hear a late-20th-century equivalent of ‘The Scream’ as suggested in the first movement of Mahler’s Tenth...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017

SCHREKER Orchestral Music from the Operas

Luxuriously orchestrated and sensuously intoxicating, the extended orchestral interludes found in Schreker’s operas are as fine an introduction as any...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2017

RASMUSSEN Symphony No 2, The Earth Anew

We’ve waited a long time for the successor to Sunleif Rasmussen’s First Symphony, Oceanic Days (1997). John Storgårds eventually lost...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017

MOZART; NIELSEN Flute Concertos

When it comes to recordings of Mozart’s First Flute Concerto the choices of partner works are rarely of an originality...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 4

We reach the end of Brautigam’s Mozart concerto cycle with the four ‘early’ works. These were long assumed to be...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2017

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