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HAYDN Symphonies Nos 99-101 (Fischer)

As always with Adám Fischer’s Haydn, there’s much to delight and plenty to argue with here. Trademark Fischerisms abound: tempo...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2024

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 43, 44 & 47 (Mortensen)

Taking his cue from Haydn’s Esterházy forces in the early 1770s, Lars Ulrik Mortensen opts for chamber-scale readings based on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2024

GUBAIDULINA Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Bayan. Rejoice! (Manze)

Her 93rd birthday imminent, Sofia Gubaidulina continues undaunted upon her compositional journey. This release features the first outing for her...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Järvi; Poschner )

Capriccio’s release of the first and last of Bruckner’s symphonies sees the completion of the cycle conducted by Markus Poschner,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Heras-Casado)

What we have here is a robust and eloquent account of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, its general manner not dissimilar to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW2024

BRUCH; SCHUMANN Violin Concertos (Niek Baar)

The Schumann doesn’t get played nearly enough – and, as he reveals in the booklet notes, it couldn’t be closer...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2024

More Bach, Please!

Seeing this album’s title, I couldn’t help but picture Oliver Twist with arms stretched out in hunger. But it’s not...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW2024

ELGAR Violin Concerto (Vilde Frang)

Some of the very best recordings of Elgar’s Violin Concerto take me back in my imagination to the Queen’s Hall...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: AW2024

Midsummer Night Magic

The sisters comprising The Lee Trio are violinist Lisa Lee, cellist Angela Lee and pianist Melinda Lee Masur, who appear...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW2024

Clear Voices In The Dark

‘There is one work … that reassures me that I have the right to compose’, wrote Francis Poulenc about Figure...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: AW2024

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