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STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (1897 98) is known for its autobiography and the composer provided with it a titled narrative...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2015

TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No 2

Coupling Tchaikovsky’s Serenade with Shostakovich’s Second Quartet seems eccentric even for an ensemble that, so the record blurb tells us,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2015

SCIARRINO Cantare con silenzio. Berceuse. Libro notturno delle voci

Salvatore Sciarrino’s early-period orchestral piece Berceuse (1967 69) provides a disappointingly still centre to the turning, transformative sound universe of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2015

SCHUBERT Symphony No 9

I’ve already sung the praises of flautist-turned-conductor Jaime Martín in his Tritó coupling devoted to Catalan composers Juli Garreta and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2015

SAINT-SAËNS Complete Works for Cello and Orchestra

There is no shortage of these Saint-Saëns works in the catalogue. Last year alone ZZT released all the music for...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2015

RÜTTI Symphony 'The Visions of Niklaus von Flüe'

Niklaus von Flüe (‘Brother Klaus’, 1417 87) is the patron saint of Switzerland whose three recorded visions dominate the content...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1 PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 2

As pianist Kirill Gerstein discusses in this issue (see page 48), the new critical edition of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2015

PETTERSSON Symphonies Nos 4 & 16

The Lindberg-Pettersson project continues to go from strength to strength. After his revelatory recording of the Ninth Symphony (5/14), Lindberg...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 6

The concluding volume of Alan Gilbert’s Nielsen cycle fully matches up to its predecessors. In fact, taking the first movements...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2015

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39 & 40

Dialogue in sound, from start to finish…that’s what these memorable performances are about. Time and again in both symphonies you...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015

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