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BRAHMS Symphony No 3 DEBUSSY La Mer

With all of the recordings of the Brahms and Debussy pieces, might the main attraction here be Janet Baker? No....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2014

BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique

Berlioz’s symphonic summit between Dionysus and Apollo has always posed its interpreters problems. Even in the face of much formidable...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2014

MOZART Piano Concerto No 24 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3

Even if the catalogue was in a less parlous state than it currently is where recordings of Beethoven’s Third Piano...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2014

ENESCU Symphonie Concertante BARTÓK Divertimento

If there’s one significant composer who needs a little help from his friends, it’s George Enescu. And by ‘friends’ I...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2014

JS BACH Violin Concertos BWV1041 & 4102 VASKS Violin Concerto

The name of Renaud Capuçon is not the first that would spring to mind when searching for recordings of Bach’s...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2014

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

The Brandenburgs are billed here as music ‘open as ever to new historically informed interpretations, as this set demonstrates’, so...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2014

ANDREAE Symphony. Li-Tai-Pe. Concertino for Oboe

This Guild series devoted to the Swiss conductor-composer Volkmar Andreae (1879-1962) is proving so comprehensive that it’s not always easy...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2014

LYAPUNOV Piano Works

The young Belgian pianist Florian Noack devotes Volume 1 of what promises to be the complete solo piano music of...

Reviewed in issue 03/2014

Wolfgang Holzmair: Wunderhornlieder

Early in the 19th century Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano assembled the Knaben Wunderhorn collection of German folk poems,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2014

Music for Passiontide

Clare College Choir’s recording of music for Passiontide, interspersed with the plainchant Stabat mater dolorosa text, is not only a...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2014

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