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Review of SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 'Leningrad'

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 'Leningrad'

Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony has, notoriously, suffered wild swings of opinion, from adulation at the time of its performance, the Siege...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2013

Review of RICHTER The Four Seasons: Recomposed

RICHTER The Four Seasons: Recomposed

Composers throughout history have revamped and updated earlier masterpieces in their own image. Here we have Max Richter’s recomposed version...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2013

Review of REGER Violin Concerto Op 101

REGER Violin Concerto Op 101

At the beginning of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, the title-character torments Eurydice by threatening to play his tedious, hour-plus...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2013

Review of MOZART Symphonies Vol 9

MOZART Symphonies Vol 9

Captivated by clarinets he had heard in Mannheim in 1777 en route to Paris, Mozart used them for the first...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2013

Review of MOZART In-Between

MOZART In-Between

Did Mozart suffer from teenage angst? This is not, I must admit, a question that had overly vexed me until...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2013

Review of MCCABE Rainforest I & II

MCCABE Rainforest I & II

Among John McCabe’s catalogue of concertos are several double concertos, the most recent being Les martinets noirs (‘Swifts’, 2003), a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2013

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 8 'Symphony of the Thousand'

MAHLER Symphony No 8 'Symphony of the Thousand'

First, the bad news. The problems in recorded choral sound that plagued earlier instalments in Markus Stenz’s Mahler cycle with...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 02/2013

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 6 'Tragic'

MAHLER Symphony No 6 'Tragic'

The first few pages tell you that this is unlikely to be a Mahler Sixth to challenge or to intimidate....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2013

Review of LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Though there are myriad recordings of Liszt’s four best-known works for piano and orchestra, to find all four on the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013

Review of KHACHATURIAN Spartacus Suite. Gayane Suite RAVEL Daphnis et Chloe Suite

KHACHATURIAN Spartacus Suite. Gayane Suite RAVEL Daphnis et Chloe Suite

One might argue quality not quantity – and the former is amply in evidence here – but 58 minutes is...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2013

 

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