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Review of PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 1 & 7

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 1 & 7

Tugan Sokhiev has impressed me in the past – his Tchaikovsky Fourth with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2017

Review of PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3

Trpčeski and Petrenko are a tried-and-tested team, and their Prokofiev recordings are every bit as polished and satisfying as I...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2017

Review of POTTER Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4

POTTER Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4

This is only the second CD ever devoted to Cipriani Potter, though he was a significant and distinguished figure during...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2017

Review of NYMAN Symphonies Nos 2 & 5

NYMAN Symphonies Nos 2 & 5

Eyebrows were raised in 2014 when Michael Nyman declared his aim during the next few years to produce not just...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2017

Review of MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 3 & 5

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 3 & 5

The Potsdamers’ disc of Mendelssohn’s Symphonies Nos 1 and 4 (10/16) left Peter Quantrill unexcited. My own reactions to its...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2017

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Vänskä)

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Vänskä)

Robert von Bahr’s label must be one of the few to have ducked the release of a Mahler cycle (at...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2017

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Haitink)

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Haitink)

It is only 10 years since Bernard Haitink launched the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s in-house label with a not dissimilar account...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2017

Review of KARŁOWICZ Violin Concerto

KARŁOWICZ Violin Concerto

Mieczysaw Karowicz’s Violin Concerto of 1902 stands at the threshold of the half a dozen Impressionist-Romantic tone poems by which...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2017

Review of Sinfonia Concertante

Sinfonia Concertante

The sinfonia concertante was all the rage in the late 18th century, above all in Paris and Mannheim, whose crack...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2017

Review of HAYDN Symphonies Nos 6 - 8

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 6 - 8

Rumours have abounded online that this could be the last disc in Thomas Fey’s Haydn symphony cycle. There are two...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2017


 

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