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GLAZUNOV Concerto Ballata PROKOFIEV Concertino

Vilified for the cut-and-paste job that he did on Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, Wilhelm Fitzenhagen has to some...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2015

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. American Suite

A big, bold New World, this, with a strong bass-line and a winning approach to the first movement’s second subject,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015

MASSENET El Cid CHABRIER España DEBUSSY Iberia

France and French performing traditions have lain at the heart of the discs released by Les Siècles, whether the repertoire...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9

Early releases in Simone Young’s nearly complete Bruckner cycle (only the Fifth Symphony remains outstanding) were distinguished by their use...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1

This release sees the completion of Jaap van Zweden’s cycle of the numbered Bruckner symphonies, a project nine years in...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2015

BRAUNFELS Sinfonia Brevis. Suite from The Glass Mountain

Readers coming to this disc through Braunfels’s delightful opera Die Vögel will recognise that the composer would be temperamentally suited...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2015

BRAHMS Violin Concerto. Double Concerto

Erik Schumann gives a most likeable performance of the Violin Concerto. As an experienced chamber musician, he has a clear...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2015

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 6 & 8

It takes a mere four seconds to fathom the gist of Stefan Blunier’s Beethoven Eighth. A forceful opening, followed by...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5

I’m not sure who’s the hero of the hour in this recording – the pianist, the orchestra or the timpanist....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015

MENDELSSOHN; BARTÓK Violin Concertos

The musical logic behind this coupling isn’t difficult to fathom. Both Mendelssohn and Bartók composed two violin concertos, one in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015

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