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BLOCH Violin Sonatas. Piano Sonata

Look on Ernest Bloch’s reputation, ye mighty, and despair. In 1957 Bloch merited an entire chapter to himself in Alec...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2018

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Manze)

This is the third recording in the cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies that Andrew Manze has made with Onyx and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2018

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (Gatti; Urbański)

Noisy demonstrations at the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring caused choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky to have to furiously shout...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 6 STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms

Available to download or in the context of a 75th-birthday box, this generous 20th-century portrait mixes the relatively unexpected with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2018

SCHUBERT Symphony No 9 (Gülke)

The last time I heard the Great C major (numbered 8 or 9 depending on where you are) in concert...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2018

SCHMITT Symphony No 2. Antoine et Cléopâtre - 2 Suites

Nearly four decades separate the works here but they are very recognisably by the same composer: Florent Schmitt, though eclectic,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018

RESPIGHI Vetrate di chiesa. Trittico botticelliano

The latest disc in John Neschling’s Respighi survey focuses on works in which his post-Romantic idiom and love of early...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 (Sudbin)

The C minor Second Concerto has left me sitting on the fence. One moment I found myself luxuriating in the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018

PROKOFIEV 'Romantic Suites' - Cinderella; Romeo and Juliet

For this dip into Prokofiev’s two major ballets, Stéphane Denève decides against any of the published suites but makes his...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2018

PROKOFIEV; RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos No 2 (Matsuev)

Gergiev. Matsuev. Rachmaninov. What could possibly go wrong? Well, quite a lot as it happens. This is, apparently, a live...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018

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