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STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben. Intermezzo

The first instalment of Strauss from Andrew Davis and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra had the Four Last Songs as its...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016

STANFORD Piano Concerto No 2

Premiered in Norfolk, Connecticut, in 1915 by the pianist Harold Bauer, Stanford’s Piano Concerto No 2, actually composed in 1911,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2016

SCRIABIN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Thanks to the focus on Scriabin’s music that came with the run-up to the centenary of his death last year...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2016

SCHUBERT Symphony No 9

This is more a clinician’s view of the Schubert’s Great C major Symphony than a poet’s; less an act of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2016

RAVEL Complete Orchestral Works

Rival Ravel recordings are in abundance at the moment, with various discs of individual works and a couple of sets...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2016

NØRGÅRD Symphonies Nos 2, 4, 5 & 6

‘As if God the Father had thrown down pieces of a mosaic from the floor of heaven and asked me...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2016

MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 2 & 5

Frank Peter Zimmermann is no stranger to Mozart’s violin concertos. He first recorded them in 1984, when he was 19...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2016

MENDELSSOHN Die erste Walpurgisnacht

It’s already apparent from a very early stage of The Hebrides that Douglas Boyd has thought carefully about instrumental balance...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016

VON KLENAU Symphony No 9

No wonder Paul von Klenau got sniffy about the musical life of his native Denmark. In his adopted Germany, Klenau...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2016

GODARD Symphonies No 2. Symphonie gothique

Benjamin Godard’s symphonic works met with a mixed response during his lifetime and slipped from view, like so much of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016

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