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SAINT-SAËNS Complete Works for Cello and Orchestra

There is no shortage of these Saint-Saëns works in the catalogue. Last year alone ZZT released all the music for...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2015

RÜTTI Symphony 'The Visions of Niklaus von Flüe'

Niklaus von Flüe (‘Brother Klaus’, 1417 87) is the patron saint of Switzerland whose three recorded visions dominate the content...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1 PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 2

As pianist Kirill Gerstein discusses in this issue (see page 48), the new critical edition of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2015

PETTERSSON Symphonies Nos 4 & 16

The Lindberg-Pettersson project continues to go from strength to strength. After his revelatory recording of the Ninth Symphony (5/14), Lindberg...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 6

The concluding volume of Alan Gilbert’s Nielsen cycle fully matches up to its predecessors. In fact, taking the first movements...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2015

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39 & 40

Dialogue in sound, from start to finish…that’s what these memorable performances are about. Time and again in both symphonies you...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 14 & 21

Perform K449 as conceived with oboes and horns – not just for strings as Mozart also sanctioned – and the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Chailly)

Here we have something very special, and a good deal more than ‘just another Mahler Ninth’. ‘Just another Mahler Ninth’!...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015

LEIFS Elegies. Quintet

With this release – actually a reissue of a Smekkleysa disc from 2009 – BIS finally completes its survey of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

KABALEVSKY Cello Concerto PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata

Leonard Elschenbroich pulls together this unusual programme of Soviet fare with his own intelligent and provocative booklet-note. He portrays Dmitry...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2015

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