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JS BACH A Christmas Oratorio

Philippe Herreweghe’s understated conducting helps to form a smoothly paced narrative from the six cantatas Bach designed for different consecutive...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2014

'The Lark Ascending’

On this recording, Tasmin Little, an acknowledged standard-bearer for, and specialist in, British music, gives us a feast of works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2014

20th Century Concerto Grosso

Now approaching his 90th year, Sir Neville Marriner is still adding new material to his vast discography in collaboration with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014

TURNAGE From the Wreckage. Speranza

These recordings come from Turnage’s brief LSO residency early in 2013 which included the world premiere of a major five-movement...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring STOKOWSKI Bach Transcriptions

Though a devoted fan of Leopold Stokowski for more years than I can remember, the coupling of the names Stokowski...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2014

STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel. Don Quixote. Macbeth

The second volume of Roth’s survey offers two of Strauss’s finest tone-poems and one relative failure. Macbeth was the first...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 01/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8

It is almost 20 years since I reviewed a Gergiev recording of the work that can come across as Shostakovich’s...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concertos

Mstislav Rostropovich will always rule the roost in ‘his’ concertos (multiple accounts of the First remain in circulation and his...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1-4

Trevor Harvey in these pages once described Schumann-conducting as ‘a department of conducting all on its own, needing a judgement...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2014

SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No 3. Cello Concerto No 1

You almost imagine that Saint-Saëns had the Capuçon brothers in mind when he considerately added to his repertoire of solo...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2014

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