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MOZART Violin Concerto No. 1 SINIGAGLIA Romance. Rapsodia piemontese (Noah Bendix-Balgley)

This violin-and-orchestra-shaped encounter between one of musical history’s forgotten names and one of its … well, Mozart, represents the launch...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2024

MOZART; POULENC Double and Triple Concertos (Nagano)

This pleasing programme highlights the gifts of a rather special musical family, one that recalls the similarly gifted Busch/Serkin, Menuhin...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (von Steinaecker)

It’s always fascinating to hear an approximation at least of how this music might have sounded in Mahler’s day (as...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2024

HOSOKAWA Orchestral Works, Vol 4 (Märkl)

Uzu is Toshio Hosokawa’s starkly palindromic title for axgripping 24-minute orchestral work from 2019, and the composer’s booklet note explains...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2024

HINDEMITH Four Temperaments SCHNITTKE Concerto for Piano and Strings (Anna Gourari)

Her ECM recitals ‘Visions fugitives’ (2/15) and ‘Elusive Affinity’ (9/19) defined Anna Gourari as a pianist on a mission, while...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2024

GRIEG; C SCHUMANN Piano Concertos (Alexandra Dariescu)

Alexandra Dariescu is celebrated as a creative programmer dedicated to music by women composers; and this inventive combination, which revitalises...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2024

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. American Suite (Stutzmann)

The distinguished contralto turned award-winning conductor has made a splash with her new orchestra in Atlanta. And now we can...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 BATES Resurrexit

‘I find it impossible to separate Bruckner from his deep spiritual beliefs’, writes Manfred Honeck in his notes for this...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (1888. Schaller)

As with Markus Poschner’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies for Capriccio, Gerd Schaller’s series of recordings for Profil aims to...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2024

M BROUWER Rhapsodies (Alsop)

As Donald Rosenberg noted (6/22US) of a previous album of hers, ‘Margaret Brouwer covers a lot of emotional territory in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024

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