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ROTT Symphony No 1

Expanded for the occasion, the Mozarteum Orchestra gets off to a sluggish start in the lengthy (patient, if you’re disposed...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2016

MOZART Three Salzburg Symphonies

BIS remasters recordings of two symphonies that had limited circulation a decade ago and adds a new one of K338...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 4 WIDMANN ad absurdum

The teenage Mendelssohn laid down a gauntlet with his First Symphony (a decade earlier, Schubert had done the same with...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2016

MAHLER Symphony No 5. Selected Songs from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'

Andris Nelsons is a conductor with whom I feel more and more kinship. Making music is so much about making...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2016

KHACHATURIAN; RAUTAVAARA Flute Concertos

Jean-Pierre Rampal’s transcription for flute of Aram Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto works better on disc than in the concert hall, where...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2016

HAYDN Cello Concertos

Great musical instruments weren’t made to gather dust in museum cases, so when Pavel Gomziakov released his new recording of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016

GUNNING Violin Concerto. Cello Concerto. Birdflight

In the booklet Christopher Gunning recalls how, in 2012, a memorable ascent of Sugar Loaf in the Black Mountains near...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2016

GERSHWIN Piano Concerto. An American in Paris. Rhapsody in Blue

Steven Richman is to Gershwin as Charles Mackerras was to Janáček. For years he has tirelessly worked to free the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016

BRAHMS Serenade. Variations on a theme by Haydn

Would it be fanciful to suggest that there’s something distinctly Netherlandish about this interpretation of Brahms’s D major Serenade? Jan...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2016

András Schiff at Mozarwoche

This DVD preserves highlights of a pair of concerts featuring András Schiff during last year’s Mozartwoche at the Mozarteum Foundation...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016

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