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STEIBELT Piano Concertos Nos 3, 5 & 7

This is the second volume of Hyperion’s Classical Piano Concerto series, one that was launched with Howard Shelley leading the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016

SIBELIUS Complete Symphonies

I doubt Hannu Lintu’s Sibelius would sound the way it does here had the conductor not been so deeply involved...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2016

SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concertos

I like the idea of a CD where top billing passes from one star soloist to another. And I like...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Symphonic Dances

The variably transliterated Dmitri Kitaenko, who recorded The Bells for Chandos in the 1990s (2/92), has recently completed a more...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

It’s the Shostakovich effect all over again. You might feel that what we need now are good modern recordings of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue:

PETTERSSON Symphony No 13

The Thirteenth Symphony (1976) is the largest of Pettersson’s later symphonies, second only in size to No 9, completed just...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2016

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream

To Mendelssohn Thomas Dausgaard brings the qualities that have distinguished his cycles of Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, notably a spring...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2016

MAHLER Symphony No 1. Blumine

The competition is formidable – that’s why it was sensible to find room for Blumine. Whether you choose to experience...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016

LISZT; SCHUBERT The Sound of Weimar

With the notable exceptions of Immerseel/Anima Eterna, Roth/Les Siècles and Rohrer/Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, the original-instrument crowd has largely avoided...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2016

LARSSON Symphony No 2. Variations

If Larsson’s First Symphony (A/14) is something of a mash-up of different styles and influences, then its successor from 1936-37...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2016

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