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DEBUSSY Jeux STRAVINSKY Petrushka (Mäkelä)

Petrushka comes home. To Paris if not the Théâtre du Châtelet. Following on from Klaus Mäkelä’s handsome coupling of Stravinsky’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2024

CHIN Orchestral Works (Rattle)

Unsuk Chin follows John Adams in getting the full Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings treatment while still alive, and rest assured the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Skrowaczewski)

Stanisław Skrowaczewski, who died in February 2017 at the age of 93, was a master conductor and much-loved musician whose...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 1872; Symphony No 3 1889 (Poschner)

Although Bruckner revised his Second Symphony several times after its initial composition in 1872, there’s much to be said for...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2024

BRAHMS; BUSONI Violin Concertos (Francesca Dego)

Italian-born Francesca Dego returns to the successful formula of her debut concerto disc (DG, 2/18), pairing an Italian rarity with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2024

William Youn: Boulanger, Fauré, Hahn

Lovers of French rarities will enjoy this stroll down the boulevard of belle époque Paris featuring Reynaldo Hahn’s Piano Concerto...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024

BACEWICZ; ENESCU; YSAŸE Music for Strings

Three string-playing composers who hailed from the same Franco-Belgian school of string pedagogy – this album from John Wilson’s Sinfonia...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024

MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Rattle)

The autumn of Simon Rattle’s illustrious career continues to deliver in abundance. This deeply impressive account of Mahler’s harrowing Sixth...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2024

Kay Kyung Eun Kim: Soundscape

The Korean pianist Kay Kyung Eun Kim, a champion of contemporary works and innovative keyboard techniques, offers pieces by three...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 04/2024

SIMON Tales - A Folklore Symphony

‘Tales is an exploration of African American folklore and Afrofuturist stories’, Carlos Simon writes in the booklet note for this...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024

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