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BEETHOVEN Lieder and Bagatelles

Interlacing a selection of (mainly) popular Lieder with piano miniatures, Werner Güra and Christoph Berner here create the Beethovenian answer...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2015

JS BACH Mass in B minor

Ulrich Leisinger’s new scholarly edition of the Mass in B minor is showcased by its publisher Carus with this deluxe...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2015

Objects at an Exhibition: Exploring Science – Inspiring Music

It has been referred to as an imagining of Pictures at an Exhibition for the 21st century, but ‘Objects…’ also...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2015

Michala Petri: Recorder Concertos

These...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2015

WENNÄKOSKI Soie. Hava. Amor Omnia Suite

Lotta Wennäkoski has made it easy for people who want to listen properly to her beautiful music. The three movements...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2015

SIBELIUS Pelléas et Mélisande. Jedermann. Two Serious Melodies

Pride of place on the third volume in Leif Segerstam’s Turku PO series for Naxos of lesser-known Sibelius goes to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2015

SIBELIUS Complete Symphonies

There is a sense here of how long and far Simon Rattle has journeyed with this music – one of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2015

RESPIGHI Metamorphosen. Belkis

Composers can be wayward judges of their own work. Respighi, it would seem, disliked his Metamorphoseon, commissioned in 1930 by...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2015

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3

Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony is the shared work in these otherwise dissimilar offerings. Valery Gergiev’s view is dark and stormy, his...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW2015

NIELSEN; SIBELIUS Violin Concertos

‘These are not good times for the [Sibelius] Violin Concerto,’ says conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste on a video at the probing...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2015

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