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STRAVINSKY Le Sacre du printemps. Capriccio. Octuor

If The Rite is your priority then you will likely be disappointed. For a few spellbinding moments I was hooked,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW22

STRAVINSKY L'Oiseau de Feu. Apollon Musagète

Percussionist turned conductor Gustavo Gimeno takes over the reins at Madrid’s Teatro Real Opera in 2025. For now his recorded...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW22

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4 (Anna Fedorova)

Up until recently I had not encountered Anna Fedorova’s playing. But following the Russian invasion of her homeland, her profile...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: AW22

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 3 HAYDN Piano Trio "Gypsy" (Martha Argerich)

Here’s one for the truly dedicated Argerich fans, not, I suggest, for the casual, mildly interested. Available only as a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW22

NORMAN Symphony No 3. Overtures

Ludvig Norman. A new name to me. But new names can bring surprises (as witness Florence Price), and who can...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW22

MYSLIVECEK Complete Violin Concertos (Shizuka Ishikawa)

There’s some miraculous music enshrined on these discs. The Czech composer Josef Mysliveček (1737-81, also known as Il Divino Boemo,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW22

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos .9 & 18 (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

Kristian Bezuidenhout returns to his slowly emerging Mozart concerto survey with a pairing of two flat-key works: the misnamed Jeunehomme,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW22

GODARD Volume 3

Dutton’s admirable championship of Benjamin Godard (1849-95) continues with a third volume, not of piano music this time but of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2022

DVORÁK Symphonies Nos 7-9 (Dudamel)

Having taken over from Esa-Pekka Salonen back in 2009, Dudamel has proved himself an assiduous curator of the ‘LA Sound’,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW22

DEBUSSY Jeu DUKAS La Péri ROUSSEL Bacchus et Ariane

Domingo Hindoyan, chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic since 2021, makes both his debut on disc and his first...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW22

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