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MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Vänskä)

The distinction between objectivity and subjectivity is crucial in Mahler and it doesn’t take long to establish that Vänskä’s bias...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Gimeno)

Setting this new studio recording of Mahler’s teenage piano quartet movement, as elaborated by Colin Matthews, against a more congested...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Chailly)

At least on record, the Leipzig Gewandhaus does not have much of a Mahler tradition – Masur and Neumann briskly...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018

DEBUSSY La Mer. Images (Krivine)

Emmanuel Krivine’s new La mer with the Orchestre National de France focuses on the much-discussed question of Debussy’s decision, on...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2018

CZERNY Piano Concerto

The third release in Naxos’s survey of Carl Czerny’s works for piano and orchestra offers two recorded premieres, both dating...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Giulini)

Despite their interest in Bruckner’s output being quite selective, both Kurt Sanderling and Carlo Maria Giulini made a number of...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2018

BERNSTEIN On the Waterfront. West Side Story dances

A compendium of popular and streetwise Lenny for Bernstein 100 – and the virtuoso trombonist in Christian Lindberg surely gives...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2018

BERLIOZ Harold en Italie (Manze)

What’s the longest viola joke in the world? Harold in Italy. It didn’t make Niccolò Paganini laugh though. The virtuoso...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 7 (van Zweden)

The signs are that Jaap van Zweden will restore to the New York Philharmonic some of the bulk (muscle tone,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5 (Bax)

It is almost impossible not to like Alessio Bax. Since his Leeds Competition win in 2000 he has confirmed his...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2018

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