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GOMPPER Cello Concerto. Double Bass Concerto. Moonburst

Whereas on the previous disc of music by David Gompper (b1954) that I reviewed (3/19) the three works were all...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2021

ELGAR; MOZART; TCHAIKOVSKY Serenades

The pandemic dampened many musical celebrations last year, but the Zurich Chamber Orchestra – or at least its string players...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021

CATOIRE Piano Concerto. Piano Quintet. Piano Quartet

A couple of years ago I was much impressed by an account of Catoire’s Piano Quintet led by Bengt Forsberg...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2021

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 2 & 8 (Nelsons)

First create your sound palette, then envision the whole. In this new account of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, Andris Nelsons and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2021

BRUCKNER The Symphonies. The Story. The Film (Gergiev)

The 19-year-old Furtwängler made his professional debut conducting the Kaim Orchestra, forerunner to the Munich Philharmonic, in Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2021

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (Concertgebouw Orchestra)

One orchestra and nine conductors, and unlike the recent Bruckner cycle from Berlin (3/20), it’s remarkable how the Concertgebouw players...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2021

ALRICH; JENKINS; ROREM Concertos for Mallet Instruments

Tuned percussion instruments, the marimba in particular, tend to suck any sense of self-importance out of composers writing for them....

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2021

Hilary Hahn: Paris

Programmes challenging conventional expectations have been a feature of Hilary Hahn’s recording career from the word go. Her debut concerto...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2021

Karl Richter : Complete Recordings on Archiv Produktion and Deutsche Grammophon (97 CDs)

The summa totalis of Karl Richter’s DG recordings (from 1959 to 1980) affords us the greatest sense yet of an...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2021

Richard Bonynge: Complete Ballet Recordings (45 Discs)

Richard Bonynge turned 90 last September, an anniversary marked by the release of this set of his complete ballet recordings...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2021

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