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The Mumbai Concerts (Mehta)

‘Bombay was an English city during my youth’, Zubin Mehta has noted. His father founded the Bombay Symphony so it’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2019

À Portuguesa

In the wake of the wars of the Portuguese Restoration and the Spanish Succession, the courts of Lisbon and Madrid...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Norfolk Rhapsodies (Yates)

During January 1905 Vaughan Williams paid a visit to King’s Lynn and the surrounding area in order to collect folk...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2019

STRAUSS Violin Concerto. Miniatures (Steinbacher)

What do you do if you’re a violinist wanting to pay homage to Richard Strauss? The composer wrote some fabulous...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8 (Noseda)

I always think that the opening bars of this war-torn essay suggest the flipside, the oppressively dark side, of the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2019

SCHREKER The Birthday of the Infanta (Falletta)

This selection of orchestral music from Schreker’s early to middle period nicely complements the recording of middle to late works...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2019

SAWYERS Concertos (Woods)

Nimbus’s coverage of Philip...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2019

SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 3 (Fischer)

Thierry Fischer leads a superb, thoroughly enjoyable reading of Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony. While he doesn’t generate quite as much heat...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2019

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Le Coq d'Or STRAVINSKY The Firebird (Petrenko)

I’m surprised this isn’t a regular pairing on disc: two heavily lacquered Russian tales by teacher and pupil, both featuring...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2018

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39 - 41 (Herzog)

Ensemble Appassionato was convened by Mathieu Herzog, a founder member of the Ébène Quartet, and draws its members from a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2019

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