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BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Haitink)

It’s pleasing to see Haitink still including Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony in his concert programmes, even if it doesn’t feature as...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2018

BRAHMS Symphony No 2 (Dausgaard)

Once again, we face the familiar conundrum: a work that has overcome ‘pathos and Faustian conflicts’ and ‘extends its warm...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2018

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2 STRAUSS Burleske

Here’s the latest addition in Joseph Moog’s fast-growing discography, recorded in 2016 when he was 28. He has already impressed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018

Now and Then: MADERNA Transcriptions BERIO Chemins V

Its title may evoke that of an album by The Carpenters in their heyday but this disc offers a welcome...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2018

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos (Goebel)

A new set of the Brandenburgs from Reinhard Goebel? One’s mind immediately goes back to the 1980s, when his first,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2018

MIGNONE; ALBENIZ Piano Concertos

Don’t let the strange cover photo put you off (conductor looking into camera, soloist looking in a completely different direction)....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 BARBER Adagio for Strings

Shostakovich’s music abounds with ambiguities and coded references that beckon to us to read between the lines. In the Fifth...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2018

PENDER Music for Woodwinds

Florida-born, DC-resident Scott Pender (b1959) is nothing if not a composer for the recording age. And a prolific one, at...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2018

MOZART Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Cotik; Israelievitch)

The joyful virtuosity and stylish musicianship that Tomas Cotik and Tao Lin brought to their superb cycle of Schubert’s violin-and-piano...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2018

HAGEN 21st Century Song Cycles

Daron Hagen was Ned Rorem’s first composition student at the Curtis Institute during the early 1980s and this collection of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2018

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