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Vienna Philharmonic: New Year's Concert 2016

A dog, we’re told, is not just for Christmas nor, in a great year, is Vienna’s New Year’s Day concert...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016

ZEMLINSKY Seven Songs. Chamber Symphony

Zemlinsky wrote neither a Chamber Symphony nor a song-cycle entitled Sieben Lieder von Nacht und Traum, and the works recorded...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2016

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. The Firebird

If you haven’t come across Colombian-born, Viennese trained Andrés Orozco-Estrada you soon will. Appointed Principal Guest Conductor to the London...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016

SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphonies

BIS has been here before, offering the same pair of Rudolf Barshai Shostakovich string quartet arrangements with Jean-Jacques Kantorow and...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3

These live recordings, finely played and boasting an impressive Concertgebouw-like bloom, were in fact made in Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 5

This is an auspicious first instalment of an apparent projected complete Prokofiev piano concerto cycle. The fresh, robust sound of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2016

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

By chance, while reviewing Pablo Heras-Casado’s new Mendelssohn disc, I happened to catch a broadcast of him conducting the San...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2016

MARTINŮ Špalíček: Suites. Rhapsody Concerto

We haven’t heard much of Neeme Järvi’s Martinů since his distinguished Bamberg symphony cycle for BIS, completed in 1988, though...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2016

JOHANN ERNST Complete Violin Concertos

‘His Highness lived only a little more than 18 years,’ wrote Georg Philipp Telemann in the preface to Prince Johann...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2016

JAËLL Symphonic and Piano Music

Marie Jaëll, Liszt claimed, had ‘the brains of a philosopher and the hands of an artist’. The subject of the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2016

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