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VIVALDI Il teatro alla moda

Finding a marketing angle on a new Vivaldi concerto release is sometimes an exercise in harmless deception, so it is...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2015

SIBELIUS Complete Symphonies

The close proximity of Simon Rattle’s latest survey of the symphonies with the majestic Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra only serves to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2015

SIBELIUS Scaramouche

We have reached the sixth and final instalment in this fascinating series from Turku. It’s given over to just one...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015

SCRIABIN Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

If some composers generate floods of discs when one of their anniversaries comes around, the centenary of Scriabin’s death has...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12q

PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf

Two updated versions of Peter and the Wolf in the same month? Must be Christmas. The first is a knock-out...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2015

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 4 & 6

No fewer than three recent Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra chiefs have been recording Prokofiev symphonies, in Bergen and São Paulo as...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015

STRAVINSKY Petruschka MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Here is more seemingly effortless music-making from Mariss Jansons. The interpretations of both pieces being broadly consistent with those he...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015

MOZART Symphony No 40

John Barbirolli came to Wagner in an age when orchestras were often smaller, pitch lower, and good conductors routinely versed...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2015

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 8, 11 & 13

An odd suggestion, perhaps, but start by playing the Larghetto of K413. Conductor Michael Alexander Willens sets the scene, the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 10

Given that it was Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s tonally luxuriant Philadelphia Orchestra that made the first commercial recording of the reconstructed Tenth...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015

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