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BRITTEN Simple Symphony. String Quartet in F

This release follows on from two earlier Britten discs by the Emperor Quartet on BIS (A/10, 12/13), which together comprise...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2014

PROKOFIEV Visions Fugitives HINDEMITH 5 Pieces

The playing of the Camerata Nordica on this disc of music from between the wars is, in a word, sensational....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2014

Charlie Siem: Under the Stars

Charlie Siem’s new CD takes its title from a song composed by Herbert Spencer (1877-1944), a name that had me...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2014

VIVALDI Flute Concertos

In a world with no shortage of Vivaldi recorder concerto discs, avoiding the routine is a must. Some fail, some...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2014

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben VARÈSE Amériques

First, Ein Heldenleben, remarkable primarily for the forward momentum of Ingo Metzmacher’s performance, the overall excellence of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014

STRAUSS Don Juan. A Hero's Life

It goes without saying that this new LPO live disc enters a crowded field. What, then, justifies its release? For...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2014

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra. Aus Italien

Both pieces open on an auspicious pedal note but any notion that they were cut from the same cloth ends...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2014

SCHUMANN Cello Concerto

The...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

The definition and dynamism that Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra have been bringing to their cycle of Schubert...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

As Marin Alsop has remarked, Prokofiev consistently bucked prevailing trends, whether political, musical or inter-personal, so it is appropriate that...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014

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