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BAKER The Tyranny of Fun

Good things come to those who wait, so the saying goes, and in Richard Baker’s case, it’s been a particularly...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024

BAERMANN Clarinet Quintets

Mozart had Anton Stadler and Brahms had Richard Mühlfeld – clarinettists who inspired late masterpieces for their instrument. Heinrich Joseph...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies (Järvi)

These days we no longer need be defensive about the Reformation, trashed by Mendelssohn himself, or the symphony-cantata Lobgesang, once...

Reviewed in issue 05/2024

Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate

Which is the most important: the journey or its destination? For Gidon Kremer, whose professional career has spanned over half...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024

STRAUSS Josephslegende (Bollon)

Josephslegende, the first of Strauss’s two ballets, was composed to a scenario by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Anglo-German count...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2024

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8 (Haitink)

The obvious question is why it has taken more than 17 years for Haitink’s second recording of Shostakovich’s wartime colossus...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2024

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain (Pappano)

Early in his tenure as music director of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano made some very...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2024

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 3 (Noseda)

This is the third and best release in the ongoing Prokofiev symphony cycle from the LSO and its principal guest...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024

NIELSEN Flute Concerto. Symphony No 3. Pan and Syrinx (Gardner)

A near-perfect combo of works spanning the length and breadth of Carl Nielsen’s life’s work. The tone poem Pan and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024

HAYDN Symphonies Vols 28-31 (Klumpp)

Like a sprinter lurching forwards to breast the tape, Johannes Klumpp announces that last spring he recorded the remaining symphonies...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024

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