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Frederick the Great: Music for the Berlin Court

The booklet-notes for this release cite the term ‘Berlin Classicism’ for the school of talented composers working at the court...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2012

Arcadia Lost: Music of Vaughan Williams & Britten

A concept album which may or may not suit the dedicated collector but is certainly worth trying. Melba’s packaging includes...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2012

WAGNER Symphonies - WWV29; WWV35. Huldigungsmarsch. Kaisermarsch

After four CDs placing Henk de Vlieger’s egregious digests of the music dramas alongside other orchestral items, Neeme Järvi and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2012

VERDI Complete Ballet Music from the Operas

There have been a number of collections of the ballets that Verdi wrote for Parisian productions of his operas. Notoriously,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2012

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 2

Both performances emanate from the final concert in Christopher Seaman’s final season (his 13th in all) as music director of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5

Dmitri Kitaenko’s new Fifth may be a rather less wayward creature than his Manfred (A/10) but that doesn’t necessarily make...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 1. Marche Slave

The opening of the symphony is a very pointed example of what makes Pletnev both intriguing and irritating. Tchaikovsky’s marking...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2012

STRAVINSKY The Firebird

‘Wastefully large’, Stravinsky notoriously came to label his original orchestration of The Firebird in the 1910 ballet recorded here, but...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/2012

SCHUMANN Piano Concerto Op 54

Sophie Pacini (b1991) is a protégée of Martha Argerich and it shows – not only in her front-cover portrait but...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2012

SCHUBERT Symphony No 7

Having given us the fleetest, leanest Beethoven modern-instrument symphony cycle on disc, usually with exhilarating results, David Zinman now bids...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2012

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