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Khachaturian

Making any kind of music documentary is fraught with difficulty, never mind when the subject is a pillar of the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2012

HARVEY Bird Concerto with Pianosong

Heaven only knows why but the title of Jonathan Harvey’s Bird Concerto with Pianosong makes me smile before having heard...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2012

FASCH Orchestral Wks Vol 3

Johann Friedrich Fasch, a contemporary of Bach, led a quiet life as Kapellmeister at the small German court of Zerbst....

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2012

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4

Like Sergiu Celibidache, Bernard Haitink is a devoted Brucknerian whose tempi have broadened with the passing years – certainly in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2012

BRIAN Symphony No 1 'Gothic'

The Gothic Symphony is a fabulous work in every sense of the word. Of epic scale and the stuff of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2012

BRAHMS Symphonies 1-4

Readings of the four Brahms symphonies which are as musicianly and clear-sighted as these beg the question: why is conductor...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2012

BERLIOZ Harold in Italy. Les Nuits d'Été

Berlioz’s Harold en Italie lends itself well to the period-instrument treatment offered to it by Les Musiciens du Louvre. The...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2012

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 'Choral'

This is a performance on period instruments by a chamber orchestra, but that is not to say that the sound...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012

KHACHATURIAN. BARBER Violin Concertos

Mikhail Simonyan was born in Russia (his father is Armenian) but from the age of 12 spent much of his...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2012

JS BACH Keyboard Concertos

Here we have two performances of selected Bach keyboard concertos, both on modern piano, and they couldn’t be more different....

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 02/2012

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