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BERLIOZ La Captive

The trend towards casting Berlioz with lighter voices, often with singers more seasoned in chronologically earlier repertoire, takes a fruitful...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014

BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis

Where Beethoven’s Missa solemnis is concerned, only the big beasts of the musical jungle need apply. Georg Solti was one...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2014

Végh in Hungary

In my experience there are only two conductors who could have delivered these pungent, characterful and lovingly played performances, Pablo...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014

Horizon 5

In this latest collection of RCO commissions or co-commissions, the two longest works – by Kaija Saariaho and Detlev Glanert...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2014

SHCHEDRIN Concerto Parlando TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto

It’s always rewarding to encounter a musician of the calibre and risk-taking flair of Philippe Graffin. Rest assured, there are...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014

Ballet Music

This partnership’s debut recording of French repertoire for Pentatone (7/14) left a most favourable impression, which is now enhanced further...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014

Balkan Fever

This is fun, primarily because of a touch of ‘premature congratulation’ towards the end of Enescu’s First Romanian Rhapsody. The...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014

The Bach Sons

On the face of it, this conspectus of keyboard works by JS Bach’s most talented sons should help the uninitiated...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2014

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade BALAKIREV Islamey

The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra (Borusan is the group of companies that sponsored it) has in its 15 years of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 09/2014

STRAVINNSKY The Rite of Spring. Petrushka

François-Xavier Roth and his highly responsive cohorts give us a strikingly fresh-faced, wonderfully vibrant Petrushka in its original 1911 guise,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014

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