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Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra: Celebrating 150 Years

This modern history in sound of the Tonhalle begins in December 1942. On the podium is Volkmar Andreae, leading an...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2018

La Venezia di Anna Maria

The top soloists of Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà – the convent, orphanage and music school where Vivaldi spent a significant...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2018

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oboe Concerto. Piano Concerto

I was very much taken with Peter Oundjian’s live pairing of Vaughan Williams’s Fourth and Fifth symphonies (5/12), and the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2018

TARP Orchestral Works Vol 1

Svend Erik Tarp was a contemporary of Vagn Holmboe and Herman D Koppel, the generation of Danish composers who came...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2018

STRAUSS Macbeth. Don Juan. Tod und Verklärung (Karabits)

Though one of Germany’s oldest orchestras, the Staatskapelle Weimar has never been a major presence on disc. Just over a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2018

RHEINBERGER; SCHOLZ Piano Concertos (Callaghan)

I first made the acquaintance of Rheinberger, born six years after Brahms, through his organ sonatas, and it is in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2018

PORRA Entropia

Lauri Porra (b1977) is a Finnish composer and electric bass player. His musical credentials are impeccable: Sibelius was his great-grandfather,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2018

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Dausgaard)

This is the only symphonic Nielsen we have had on record from Thomas Dausgaard since his 2012 DVD release of...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2018

MOZART Piano Concertos (Tryon)

It’s good to be reminded just how much fun Mozart’s works involving multiple pianos are. The concertos for two and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2018

MOZART; MYSLIVEČEK Flute Concertos (de la Vega)

For all his protestations about how he detested the flute, Mozart nevertheless gave flautists two of the founding works of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2018

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