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WEBER Complete Overtures

It might be easy to overlook this new CPO disc of all Weber’s overtures. But it would be a mistake...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016

SCHUBERT Death and the Maiden SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symophony

Following a debut disc pairing Tchaikovsky’s Serenade with Bartók’s Divertimento (1/15), this latest offering from the LSO’s elite string group...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 21

Rudolf Buchbinder offers the standard pairing of Mozart’s two most popular piano concertos: the stormy D minor (K466) and the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2016

MAHLER Symphony No 3

The Third was the first of Mahler’s symphonies to be recorded by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2016

SZYMANOWSKI Symphony No 2 LUTOSŁAWSKI Livre pour orchestre

A good deal of the impact of this excellent release is due to the splendidly accommodating acoustic of the new...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2016

KOCH Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Erland von Koch (1910-2009) was very prolific in a composing career lasting over eight decades. A number of his works...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2016

IVES Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Ludovic Morlot’s pairing of the Third and Fourth Symphonies rolls up months after Andrew Davis kicked off his Chandos cycle...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2016

HAYDN Concertos

No one can be sure that the G major Violin Concerto recorded here is authentic Haydn. But with the composer’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016

GLAZUNOV. SIBELIUS Violin Concertos

Only 22 this year, and two or three years younger than that when these recordings were made, the American violinist...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2016

Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi

This is an enticing package. You’d have to be a fairly diehard Anglophobe not to be attracted to a new...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016

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