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JUROWSKI Symphony No 5. Russian Painters

Not to be confused with his conductor grandson Vladimir Mikhailovich, or with his son Michail Vladimirovich who conducts on the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2015

HERZ Piano Concerto No 2

Public taste is a fickle thing. The higher your standing, the greater your fall – pianistic superstars of today take...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015

W & J HAYDN; MOZART Horn Concertos

Virtuosity is a remarkable thing and virtuosos remarkable people. Few more so, perhaps, than Felix Klieser (b1991), a cornist born...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2015

GLAZUNOV Concerto Ballata PROKOFIEV Concertino

Vilified for the cut-and-paste job that he did on Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, Wilhelm Fitzenhagen has to some...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2015

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. American Suite

A big, bold New World, this, with a strong bass-line and a winning approach to the first movement’s second subject,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015

MASSENET El Cid CHABRIER España DEBUSSY Iberia

France and French performing traditions have lain at the heart of the discs released by Les Siècles, whether the repertoire...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9

Early releases in Simone Young’s nearly complete Bruckner cycle (only the Fifth Symphony remains outstanding) were distinguished by their use...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1

This release sees the completion of Jaap van Zweden’s cycle of the numbered Bruckner symphonies, a project nine years in...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2015

BRAUNFELS Sinfonia Brevis. Suite from The Glass Mountain

Readers coming to this disc through Braunfels’s delightful opera Die Vögel will recognise that the composer would be temperamentally suited...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2015

BRAHMS Violin Concerto. Double Concerto

Erik Schumann gives a most likeable performance of the Violin Concerto. As an experienced chamber musician, he has a clear...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2015

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