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IVES Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Ludovic Morlot’s pairing of the Third and Fourth Symphonies rolls up months after Andrew Davis kicked off his Chandos cycle...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2016

HAYDN Concertos

No one can be sure that the G major Violin Concerto recorded here is authentic Haydn. But with the composer’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016

GLAZUNOV. SIBELIUS Violin Concertos

Only 22 this year, and two or three years younger than that when these recordings were made, the American violinist...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2016

Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi

This is an enticing package. You’d have to be a fairly diehard Anglophobe not to be attracted to a new...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016

ELGAR Introduction & Allegro VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending

For readers of a certain age, The Lark Ascending may be the biggest draw here. Pinchas Zukerman, long the starriest...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016

DVOŘÁK. SCHUMANN Piano Concertos

Some of Stephen Hough’s greatest triumphs are to be found in Hyperion’s wondrous Romantic Piano Concerto series. In a sense...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016

Comédie et Tragédie Vol 2

Vol 1 of Chandos’s ‘Comédie et Tragédie’ series contained well-known pieces by Lully, Marais and Rebel. The music here is...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2016

CHAGRIN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Born Alexander Paucker in Bucharest, Francis Chagrin (1905-1972) settled first in Paris (where he studied with Paul Dukas and Nadia...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2016

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9

I was struck while watching this latest instalment of Christian Thielemann’s video Bruckner cycle how much camera movement there is...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2016

BRUCKNER Symphony No 5

This first recording of a Bruckner symphony by the relatively unknown American conductor Lance Friedel is notable for not only...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2016

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