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SIBELIUS Symphony No 2. King Christian II Suite (Rouvali)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s recording of Sibelius’s First Symphony and En saga (3/19) received a string of accolades following its release last...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 (Muti)

There are American ensembles with a more sustained Shostakovich tradition than the Chicago Symphony but the present recording, taken from...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2020

SEREBRIER Symphonic BACH Variations

While consistently light-textured in its scoring for string orchestra, each movement of José Serebrier’s Flute Concerto with Tango (2008) has...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Gardiner)

A mere matter of months after issuing Symphonies Nos 2 and 4 with the LSO, John Eliot Gardiner completes the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

SCHOENBERG Violin Concerto. Verklärte Nacht (Isabelle Faust)

Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto can be heard as his typically defiant response to a period of exceptional stress and strain. In...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2020

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 1 (Anna Fedorova)

Were this my introduction to Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto, I would come away well pleased. It seems to tick all...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2020

MOZART Piano Concertos Vol 5 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

In what might from the outside look rather like a sweeping-up exercise, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Gábor Takács-Nagy’s Manchester Camerata take...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

LUTOSŁAWSKI Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 (Lintu)

Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra return to the Lutosławski symphonies (Nos 1 and 4 were reviewed 2/19)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2020

LISZT Dante Symphony. Tasso (Karabits)

Written in 1857, Liszt’s Künstlerfestzug was originally planned as a grand pièce d’occasion to accompany the unveiling in Weimar of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020

KOECHLIN; POULENC 'Couleurs' (Artur Pizarro)

Thomas Rösner’s new recording with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra presents two works each by a pair of 20th-century French composers...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020

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