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DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 JANÁČEK Jenufa Suite

Manfred Honeck’s handling of the Eighth Symphony’s opening phrases is rapturously beautiful, the cellos truly espressivo, the initial bird-like entry...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5. Choral Fantasy

To have arrived so soon at the end of this journey seems almost a pity, for the company has been...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2014

MONTEVERDI Vespers for the Feast of St Mark

Appearances can be deceptive, so be advised that this is not yet another version of the 1610 Vespers. These proceedings...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014

Nicola Benedetti: Homecoming

Nothing becomes Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy more than those opening chords on sombre wind band that seem to echo the twilight...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 09/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos 12 & 13 (chamber versions)

Mozart’s two piano quartets leave you wanting more in that medium, and these chamber-size versions of two 1782 piano concertos...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014

ZEMLINSKY String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

Interesting that Zemlinsky’s First Quartet of 1896 takes on the mantle of Brahms, much as Schoenberg’s first completed D major...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014

Vittorio Grigòlo: The Romantic Hero

Much has been made of Vittorio Grigòlo’s background, including early years in in the choir of the Sistine Chapel and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2014

Daniel Behle: Gluck Opera Arias

The inexorable rise of Handelian opera seria has exploded the old-fashioned polemic that formerly exalted Gluck as a righteous reformer...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014

JANÁČEK; SCHUMANN Piano Works

In this Wigmore Hall recital, Jonathan Biss sets out to demonstrate how much influence Schumann had on Janáček. He does...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2014

MESSIAEN Turangalîla Symphony

Juanjo Mena’s 2012 Turangalîla-Symphonie for Hyperion felt like the dawning of a new Messiaenic age. As I said in my...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014

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