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GÁL Cello Works

By my reckoning this is the 15th Avie recording to feature the music of Hans Gál and, despite its worth,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2018

FERNEYHOUGH La Terre est un Homme

In his booklet note, Paul Griffiths suggests that Brian Ferneyhough’s music might be heard as a corrective (even a wake-up...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2018

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9 'From the New World' (Nelsons)

This concert was recorded in May 2017, following the announcement that Andris Nelsons would succeed Riccardo Chailly as music director...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2018

Copland Conducts Copland

Copland was 75 when this short but attractive concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic was filmed for the long-running PBS...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1 (Thielemann)

Although the outer sleeve and booklet note make no mention of it, this is the first recording of the International...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2018

BORGSTRÖM; SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos

It was only a matter of time before Eldbjørg Hemsing, a big star in her native Norway, followed her sister...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2018

BERNSTEIN Serenade KORNGOLD Violin Concerto

Liza Ferschtman’s Mendelssohn coupling (5/17) sounded astonishingly fresh but her mid-20th-century follow-up is something of a curate’s egg: two more...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2018

RACHMANINOV The Bells. Symphonic Dances

This superlative performance of Rachmaninov’s choral symphony The Bells is one of those stratospherically accomplished, ‘cosmic’ ones that Jansons says...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2018

Midnight at St Etienne du Mont

For organists of a certain vintage the Parisian church of St Etienne du Mont is indelibly associated with Maurice Duruflé,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2018

Sergio Tiempo: Legacy

The latest release of Sergio Tiempo, the Caracas-born pianist of impeccable credentials, is titled ‘Legacy’. His personal programme, inspired by...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018

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