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SIBELIUS Belshazzar's Feast

This is the second volume in Naxos’s new series of less familiar gems from the pen of Jean Sibelius. Top...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos

Anna Vinnitskaya not only plays the Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings with consummate agility and clarity, she also directs...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2015

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 - 4

Schumann symphony cycles have been arriving thick and fast recently, from Nézet-Séguin, Ticciati and Rattle. And not so many years...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2015

SCHUMANN Piano Concerto. Piano Trio No 2

Melnikov, Faust and Queyras continue their series of Schumann’s concertos and piano trios with the Piano Concerto and the second...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2015

SCHOENBERG Pelleas and Melisande

If this 2013 studio recording of Pelleas und Melisande lacks the clarity and conviction of the same team’s magnificent Gurrelieder...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2015

SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 3

There is an appealing family feel to this disc. Rather than parachuting in any headline-catching international soloists, the Kansas City...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2015

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

This third release in Kirill Karabits’s Prokofiev symphony cycle will not disappoint those following its progress. Even if competition could...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2015

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

When reviewing Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s coupling of Mendelssohn’s First and Third Symphonies (8/14), I concluded by lamenting a certain listlessness in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2015

MAHLER Symphonies Nos 7, 8 & 9

The prospect of a 36-minute first movement for the Ninth (Klemperer’s is 28'18") did not bode well on this final...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2015

LUTOSŁAWSKI Piano Concerto. Symphony No 2

Commissioned by the 1988 Salzburg Festival and first performed by dedicatee Krystian Zimerman, Lutosawski’s Piano Concerto serves up a wealth...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2015

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