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The Jean Sibelius Edition - 150th Anniversary Box set

Few pioneering recordings from any era burn with greater passionate intensity or recreative spark than those set down in London...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Michelangelo Poems LISZT Petraca Sonnets

Dmitri Hvorostovsky has always been just as comfortable on the recital platform as on the operatic stage, a state of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015

Minoritenkonvent: Manuscript XIV 726 from the Convent of the Minorites

<p>Today Biber is probably the best known of the mid- to late‑17th-century violin virtuoso...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2015

HANDEL Partenope

‘[Senesino] put me in a sweat in telling me that Parthenope was likely to be brought on the stage, for...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2015

JS BACH Magnificat. Christmas Cantata 63

We have got used to the idea now that, coming from the Dunedin Consort, core works will not be quite...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue:

JS BACH Mass in B minor

The degree to which conductors are more or less synonymous with particular works is a largely subjective matter, though few...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue:

Max Emanuel Cencic: Arie Napoletane

Flamboyance and intelligence don’t always go hand in hand, though Max Emanuel Cencic possesses both qualities in spades. The photographs...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2015

BARTÓK Contrasts LIGETI Concertos for Piano, Cello and Violin

György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto (1985‑88) has been threatening to transform itself into a modern composition lollipop and I, for one,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 2 TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1

As word began to trickle out from Fort Worth during the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition, her name kept coming up:...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Chailly)

Developed and then fine-tuned in Leipzig over the last decade, Chailly.2 really does come with a different operating system. Briskly...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2015

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