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ALFANO Complete String Quartets

Alfano’s First begins like a quartet using jump-leads to start a Janáček piece (though it dates from 1915, eight years...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW23

WALKER Sinfonias Nos 1-5 (Noseda)

The National Symphony Orchestra have been releasing recordings of George Walker’s five sinfonias as digital singles (I reviewed Nos 1...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW23

VIVALDI Concerti Per Violino Xi 'per Anna Maria' (Fabio Biondi)

The Vivaldi Edition rolls on. Proposed by scholar Alberto Basso, its aim is not to record everything the Red Priest...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW23

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 5 & 9 (van Zweden)

This coupling defines Shostakovich in so many ways – not least the subterfuge and double-speak that marked out his symphonic...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW23

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39 & 40 (Popelka)

Petr Popelka has recently relinquished the chief conductorship of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, which he held from 2020. As a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW23

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 23 & 14 (Dejan Lazic)

The Croatian pianist Dejan Lazić grew up in Salzburg and studied at the city’s Mozarteum. One...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW23

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 9 & 24 (Lars Vogt)

These recordings were made in late April 2021, when Lars Vogt was already seriously ill with cancer. To be reviewing...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW23

MOZART The Violin Concertos (Renaud Capuçon)

A previous Renaud Capuçon Mozart recording with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Louis Langrée (Concertos Nos 1 and 3, with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW23

MARTINŮ Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra (Josef Špaček, Miroslav Sekera)

Martinů’s eccentric compositional fluency can throw even ardent admirers off the scent. Of the three works included in the present...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW23

MANEEIN; SHOSTAKOVICH Dependent Arising (Rachel Barton Pine)

According to Rachel Barton Pine, ‘There is perhaps no classical composer who is more beloved to metalheads than Shostakovich’. I’m...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW23

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