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WEINBERG Symphony No 13. Concertino

The premiere recording of the Thirteenth Symphony is a major event for Weinbergians. After this there are only three symphonies...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker (Dudamel)

’Tis the season to roast your Nutcrackers by the fire. A year on from my mammoth survey of available recordings...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY; SCRIABIN Piano Concertos (Xiayin Wang)

Kirill Gerstein was the first to record the Tchaikovsky B flat minor using a new critical edition of the score...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018

STRAVINSKY Petrushka. Jeu de Cartes (Gergiev)

Bold local colours are pretty much a given for Petrushka with this orchestra and this conductor in this location. But...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2018

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben. Burleske (Albrecht)

It’s been a decade since Marc Albrecht last released a disc of Strauss orchestral music on Pentatone. That was an...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2018

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 3 (Korstick)

There is enough explosive playing on this disc to trigger a red-level threat warning. Is it riveting? Intermittently, yes. Does...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 15 & 16 (Bavouzet)

The third volume of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s survey of the piano concertos completes his recordings of the six concertos composed for...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Currentzis)

Anyone who thrilled (as I did) to Teodor Currentzis’s Tchaikovsky Pathétique will find distinct parallels here. The impulse, the imperative,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Jansons)

Invited to Copenhagen to receive the annual Léonie Sonning Music Prize in March 2018, Mariss Jansons gave a celebration concert...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2018

KUSSER Six French Overtures

Lovers of obscure but worthwhile Baroque music roll up! That is, unless you bought this disc when it first came...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2018

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