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OFFENBACH Overtures

This is big-band Offenbach on modern instruments dealing freely with both ensemble sizes and editions, no authentic honeymoon. But Chandos’s...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2015

Steve Martland Anthology

This is, finally, the memorial that all of us who were admirers of Steve Martland’s music have been waiting for....

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2015

HINDEMITH Mathis de Maler

The second disc in Christoph Eschenbach’s Hindemith series with the NDR Sinfonieorchester brings together the works that effectively marked the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015

HAYDN The London Symphonies

Having now heard all six of the second set of ‘London’ Symphonies in this series by Bruno Weil, I have...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2015

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 52, 53 & 59

Rebecca Miller has already proved her credentials at the more angsty end of the 18th-century symphony with her Editor’s Choice...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2015

GRAUGAARD Venus. Book of Throws; Layers of Earth

If you don’t want to know about the scientific plotting behind this music, look away now (skip to the next...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2015

ELGAR Sea Pictures. Polonia. Pomp and Circumstance Marches

Alice Coote, partnered with exquisite grace and scrupulous care by Mark Elder and the Hallé, gives us a Sea Pictures...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2015

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto. Piano Trio No 4

Sebastian Klinger – first solo cellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – has already committed several chamber and instrumental...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 11/2015

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 1

I’ve lost count of Argerich’s many recordings of the First Chopin Concerto but what remains extraordinary is how each one...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015

BRAHMS Symphony No 4. Hungarian Dances

From the first, there has been debate over how Brahms’s tragic Fourth Symphony is best performed. The logically minded Hans...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2015

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