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HAYDN Symphonies, Vol 8 (Antonini)

Which way will they turn next? Giovanni Antonini and his Italian period-instrument band here present an early, a middle and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

HANDEL Concerti Grossi, Op 6, Nos 7-12 (Forck)

Last year the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin made their debut on Pentatone (hopping over from Harmonia Mundi) with the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020

GLASS Violin Concerto No 2 (Piotr Plawner)

Subtitled American Four Seasons, Glass’s Violin Concerto No 2 deviates from Vivaldi’s well-known work in that each movement avoids portraying...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2020

CHOPIN Piano Concertos (Yundi)

Yundi has been associated with Chopin ever since he became the youngest-ever winner of the eponymous competition in Warsaw in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2020

CHERUBINI Discoveries

Before one gets too excited at the tagline ‘9 world premiere recordings’ on this all-Cherubini disc from Riccardo Chailly and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Dausgaard)

The word ‘chivalrous’ invariably comes to mind with the opening measures of Bruckner’s Sixth: knights errant galloping towards new adventures,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2020

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1 (Vienna version, 1891, Schaller)

Since 1935, when both the Linz and Vienna editions of Bruckner’s First Symphony were published by Robert Haas, conductors and...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020

BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique (Fischer)

It’s unfortunate timing for Hyperion that its new disc of the Symphonie fantastique follows hot on the heels of Les...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 (Forck)

Justin Heinrich Knecht’s five-movement Portrait musical de la Nature, ou Grande Simphonie (1783) begins with an evocation of Arcadian bliss...

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

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 5 (Currentzis)

To make Beethoven’s Fifth sound fresh seems a Herculean task, yet that’s what Teodor Currentzis accomplishes here in a relentlessly...

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

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