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A Tribute to Hans Knappertsbusch

The two vintage Austrian Radio concert broadcasts combined and upgraded here – in vision and, perhaps, sound (no details) –...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2016

Silvesterkonzert: New Year‘s Eve Concert 2015

Most of this concert, recorded live at the Berlin Philharmonie last New Year’s Eve, is like being driven in the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2016

Overtures from the British Isles Vol 2

This most welcome second volume of British overtures serves to accentuate the sheer diversity of works this country produced in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2016

RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez

Sometimes a work’s ubiquity blinds us to its brilliance. Familiarity breeds – albeit amiable, cosy – contempt. Rodrigo’s Concierto de...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2016

Ning Feng: Apasionado

The best thing about this disc is the programme, followed closely by the recorded sound and, a short distance behind...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2016

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fat Knight. Henry V Overture

No sooner had I greeted Lyrita’s enterprising refurbishment of Stanford Robinson’s 1956 BBC broadcast of RVW’s Falstaff opera Sir John...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2016

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 2 & 8

Repertoire, orchestra, producer (Andrew Keener) and venue (Liverpool Philharmonic Hall) prompt rosy memories of Vernon Handley’s distinguished March 1992 sessions...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2016

SHOSTAKOVICH. WEINBERG Cello Concertos

Weinberg’s Cello Concerto is one of those products of the time of the Soviet Union’s 1948 anti-formalism campaign that went...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2016

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

Gravesend is an unlikely location for a Russian opus 1, but the Andante tranquillo of Rimsky-Korsakov’s First Symphony was composed...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2016

RAVEL Daphnis e Chloé. Valses nobles et sentimentales

Stéphane Denève’s recorded legacy from the time he was at the helm of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra is primarily...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2016

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