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DVORÁK; MARTINU Piano Concertos (Ivo Kahánek)

Among Bohuslav Martinů’s five piano concertos, his Fourth (1956) is arguably the most original and inventive, and certainly the most...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Honeck)

Manfred Honeck’s interpretation of the three-movement version of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony is one of the most distinctive to have appeared...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2019

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 (Thielemann)

With this final instalment of Thielemann’s Bruckner series with the Staatskapelle Dresden, a complete cycle of the composer’s numbered symphonies...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2019

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Jordan)

This is the final instalment of Philippe Jordan’s Beethoven cycle recorded live with the Vienna Symphony in the spring of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2019

BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 & 5 (Fischer)

Iván Fischer leads a polished and powerful account of Beethoven’s Fifth, although he makes a few odd interpretative choices along...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2019

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (Fischer)

If you’re after a rationale behind this extraordinary set of performances, Fischer himself provides one in the booklet interview accompanying...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2019

JS BACH Trumpet Concertos (Matthias Höfs)

No modern-day piccolo trumpet soloist offers the security, delicacy and effortless élan of Matthias Höfs in 18th-century repertoire, as witnessed...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2019

JS, JB & JL BACH Overtures for Orchestra. JB BACH Suites

Rinaldo Alessandrini’s new recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites may well be the danciest ever. Thirteen years after his joyful account...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2019

ARENSKY Chamber Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade

Robin Holloway remarked that everything in Tchaikovsky’s work truest to his genius ‘aspires to the condition of ballet’: a perception...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2019

The Mathilde Album (Quatour Arod)

Come for the sex, stay for the music. That would seem to be the implication behind the title of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

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