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Christian-Pierre La Marca: Legacy

Haydn’s cello concertos may top and tail the running order but this programme hinges around the figure of Nicola Porpora...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

HAYDN 'Symphonies, Vol 13 – Hornsignal’ (Antonini)

Eight years, 13 volumes and 41 symphonies into his ambitious ‘Haydn 2032’ project, Giovanni Antonini selects three works in which...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

MILHAUD La Création du Monde ELGAR Enigma Variations (Ward)

The Maastricht-based Philharmonie Zuidnederland has been building a notable discography during recent years, with its latest release on Fuga Libera...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023

ELGAR Viola Concerto BLOCH Suite for Viola and Orchestra (Timothy Ridout)

The first thing worth mentioning about this remarkable recording is the sound, an Andrew Keener production with engineer Dave Rowell...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Järvi)

There was a time between 1906 and 1949, during the 43-year stewardship of chief conductor Volkmar Andreae, when Zurich’s Tonhalle...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 'Romantic' (Poschner)

'An 1876 version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony?’ I hear diehard Brucknerians asking. ‘Have I have been missing something all these...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2023

BEETHOVEN Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (Bosch)

Marcus Bosch and his Heidenheim-based period band are coming to the end of their journey through Beethoven’s music for the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2023

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1, 2 & 7 (Manacorda)

Antonello Manacorda describes the Kammerakademie Potsdam’s approach to Beethoven as a ‘merger’ between the worlds of modern instruments and period...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2023

JS BACH ‘Bach Transcriptions – Six Concertos for Violoncello Piccolo’

The grass is always greener: I’ve lost count of how many Bach transcriptions I’ve listened to over the past 12...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2023

Toutes les nuits

There are some albums that I can’t seem to stop playing because I enjoy them so much. Then there are...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2023

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