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Quattro Violini a Venezia (Clematis)

The names here are the ones that turn up on most anthologies of early 17th-century Italian string music, but what...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2019

WAGNER Overtures & Preludes (Orozco-Estrada)

These overtures and preludes were recorded live in the Eberbach Abbey basilica, whose resonant acoustic magnifies the unusually soft-grained character...

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

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending (Manze)

Anyone looking for an introduction to the music of Vaughan Williams ought to look no further than this new release...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2019

TERTERIAN Symphonies 3 & 4

Avet Rubeni Terterian’s relatively early death in 1994 may not be the only reason we haven’t heard more of him....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 (Jansons)

One of these days a Mariss Jansons recording will arrive that will confound my expectations. This, alas, is not it....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 4 (Noseda)

It’s the symphony that might or might not have recalibrated Shostakovich’s future and it’s still one of the trickiest to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019

SCHUMANN Symphonies 2 & 4 (Gardiner. Herreweghe)

Two veteran conductors from the period-instrument movement revisit Schumann’s symphonies with modern-instrument orchestras. Coincidentally, in reviewing Philippe Herreweghe’s earlier traversals...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2019

PROKOFIEV Sinfonia Concertante. Cello Sonata

These exceptionally beautiful reappraisals are likely to divide listeners. Bruno Philippe’s command of the instrument can scarcely be gainsaid –...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2019

MESSIAEN LAscension, Le Tombeau resplendissant (Järvi)

The received wisdom is that Messiaen grew up at the keyboard, so to speak, but according to his teacher Marcel...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Fischer)

Rather as he did for his controversial (and somewhat disappointing) account of Das Lied von der Erde, Adám Fischer offers...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019

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