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SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 2 & 7

Disappointing. Part of the problem here is the chilly ambience of BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff and the fact that...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 14

With its twin themes of death and resistance, Shostakovich’s symphony of sorrowful songs is as potent and pithy and defiant...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8. STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Winds

Writing for the Warner Icon box of Berglund’s EMI recordings, David Nice remembers the ‘awful numbness’ of the Eighth Symphony’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015

SCHUMANN Violin Concerto. Piano Trio No 3

Isabelle Faust brings her flawless technique and peerless intelligent musicianship to two works from a period during which Schumann’s sanity...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2015

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

Bracing and genial by turns, I guess you might characterise these symphonies as Nielsen’s most companionable. The first and second...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2015

MOZART Serenade No 5. Divertimento No 10

Recordings of Mozart’s orchestral serenades are still relatively uncommon, so this disc of two is welcome. Mozart composed them during...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2015

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 9 & 12

‘There is little point in recording Mozart’s most popular concertos for the hundredth time,’ the conductor Heribert Beissel disarmingly claims...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2015

MOZART Complete Violin Concertos

‘Youthful music of yearning…imbued with an innocent utopianism, a faith in perfectability, beauty, and sensual fulfilment’ was Mozart biographer Maynard...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2015

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Reviewing Jan Willem de Vriend’s 2011/12 recording of Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony I concluded that, ‘for a fresh, immediate statement that...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2015

MEDTNER Piano Concerto No 3 SCRIABIN Piano Concerto

It’s perhaps not surprising that Yevgeny Sudbin should be drawn to Nikolai Medtner: both are Russian-born, both ended up in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015

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