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SIBELIUS Symphony No 2. Finlandia. Karelia Suite

Virtuoso conducting and immaculate orchestral playing, for sure, but there are drawbacks. Finlandia distils plenty of truculent defiance but there’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2016

SCHUMANN Complete Symphonic Works, Vol 6

With this sixth and final volume in his series of the ‘Complete Symphonic Works’, Heinz Holliger mops up the remaining...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2016

ROUSE Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic have already set down a cycle of the Nielsen symphonies together with recent...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2016

RESPIGHI Sinfonia Drammatica

Completed in June 1914, the Sinfonia drammatica is essentially an expression of Respighi’s anxieties about the impending First World War....

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2016

RADECKE Symphony Op 50

With his high collars and long flowing hair, the Robert Radecke who gazes out from the back of the booklet...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2

This is the third time Mariss Jansons has committed Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony to commercial disc, following earlier versions with the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2016

PALMGREN Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 3

The most interesting music on this disc comes first. Selim Palmgren’s Second Piano Concerto (b1913) starts with a mysterious, almost...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2016

F X MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 CLEMENTI Piano Concerto

For the third volume in Hyperion’s Classical Piano Concerto series Howard Shelley has swapped the Ulster Orchestra for that of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2016

MOZART Violin Concertos

The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra has something of a reputation for working harmoniously with guest soloist-directors, not least among them Leif...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2016

HENZE Symphony No 7

Is it inevitable that Henze’s most orthodox symphony is destined to receive more recordings than any of his others? This...

Reviewed in issue 08/2016

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