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TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 (A Jansons)

Back in September 1971 I attended a concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall by what was then the Leningrad Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Chauhan)

Like the preceding volume (8/23), this further exploration of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral works and operas is a delight for the audiophile....

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 04/2024

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben MAHLER Rückert-Lieder (Payare)

This somewhat unlikely concert-derived programme kicks off with an orchestral work whose discography stretches back to Willem Mengelberg’s pioneering New...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2024

SMETANA Má Vlast (Bychkov)

There are precious few orchestras in the world with a sound and an identity as distinctly their own as the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2024

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (de Vriend)

Jan Willem de Vriend has been busy in recent years recording Romantic orchestral masterpieces for Challenge Classics: lots of Beethoven...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 18 & 21 (Jonathan Fournel)

Howard Griffiths’s ‘Next Generation Mozart Soloists’ project has performed a valuable service in offering young musicians studio experience in central...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 6 & 8 (Robert Levin)

For this group of concertos from 1776, Robert Levin turns to the tangent piano, an instrument in which the string...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2024

MESSIAEN Turangalîla-Symphonie (Gimeno)

Quick and even precipitate tempos don’t exclude ardency of expression in Gustavo Gimeno’s direction of Turangalîla. He shapes the divided...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024

KRIEGER Orchestral Works (Thomson)

Diversity is an outstanding feature of the ‘Music of Brazil’ series from Naxos, not only in turning up so many...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024

HOWELL Orchestral Works (Miller)

‘Music is a rum go.’ So remarked Vaughan Williams of his profession, words that might have resonated with the Birmingham-born...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024

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