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SUK Symphony No 2 'Asrael' (Hruša)

Reviewing his earlier recording of Josef Suk’s Asrael in the context of a Collection (6/18) on this work prompted the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020

STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie. Tod und Verklärung (Petrenko)

Vasily Petrenko’s Strauss series with the Oslo Philharmonic has been a quiet revelation: three superb albums released with little fanfare...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos 1 & 2 (Ivan Pocheki)

The thirty-something Moscow-born virtuoso Ivan Pochekin has been a peripatetic recording artist. There’s a locally popular Melodiya album of duets...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2020

SCHUBERT Symphoneis Nos 2 & 6 (Gardner)

The opening salvo in Edward Gardner’s Schubert symphony edition (3/19) boded well. Its successor lives up to expectations. These are...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2020

RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Behzod Abduraimov)

The two masterpieces Rachmaninov composed at his summer mansion in Lucerne in the mid-1930s make an obvious coupling and have...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2020

PROKOFIEV Symphonies 1 & 5 (Søndergård)

All seven Prokofiev symphonies are getting performances these days and Thomas Søndergård has announced plans to present a complete cycle...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2020

NEUWIRTH Miramondo Multiplo

Last December Olga Neuwirth’s opera Orlando was, indefensibly, only the first full opera by a woman on the Vienna State...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2020

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39-41 (Minasi)

‘The most limpid and lyrical music in existence’ was Eric Blom’s verdict on Symphony No 39 in his Master Musicians...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2020

MOZART Haffner Serenade. Ein musikalischer Spaß

This extremely well-filled SACD presents the heftiest of Mozart’s Salzburg serenades along with an associated march and the evergreen Musical...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

MIHAJLOVIC Memento - Orchestral Works

That Serbia has produced no composer of international standing this past half century makes one wonder whether different geopolitical factors...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020

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