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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 9 & 10 (Noseda)

Gianandrea Noseda continues his idiomatic-sounding LSO Shostakovich cycle with another generous pairing. Conventionally paced, the Ninth’s opening Allegro retains a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2021

MARTINAITYTE Saudade

The large-scale ensemble project In Search of Lost Beauty … (Starkland, 4/19) alerted many listeners to the intricately alluring sonic...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2021

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Hrůša)

Not for the first time the music industry has had to adapt to new socio-economic realities and I half expected...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2021

KANCHELI Symphonies 1-7 (Kakhidze)

The symphonies of Giya Kancheli (1935-2019) constitute a truly remarkable body of work. They come out of the context of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2021

HARRIS Symphony No 6 'Last Letter'

Both of these substantial offerings by New Zealander Ross Harris (b1945) employ texts by his countryman and favourite collaborator, Vincent...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2021

ELGAR Violin Concerto. Violin Sonata (Renaud Capuçon)

About Elgar’s Violin Concerto, Diana McVeagh once commented: ‘To listen to the Violin Concerto is at times like eavesdropping on...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2021

Caprices and Laments (Maximiliano Martín)

‘He has a temper, a primitive force harsh and clumsy, with a smattering of blue-eyed Danish amenity.’ So wrote a...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2021

BRAHMS Double Concerto (Thielemann)

In the Brahms Concerto, speaking metaphorically, the soloists’ courtship takes a little time to reach marriage status. The opening cadenzas...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2021

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 7 (Currentzis)

As related in Peter Quantrill’s booklet note for this dynamic MusicAeterna Seventh, Teodor Currentzis seeks ‘an architecture that uncovers spirituality,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2021

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto. Trio Op 36 (arr of Symphony No 2)

My days of Beethoven Triple Concerto scepticism are now behind me, thanks to this breathtaking new recording by the powerhouse...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2021

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