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CHOPIN Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra

Here are Chopin’s complete works for piano and orchestra, making comparison a marginal issue. Yet I have to say that...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8

A recent live performance of Bruckner’s longer and more wayward original version of the Eighth Symphony (1887, ed Nowak) has...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2014

BRUCH Violin Concerto No 2. Scottish Fantasy

Bruch’s Second Concerto is a strong work of considerable originality; it might well have become more popular but for the...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2014

BLOCH Israel Symphony. Suite for Viola and Orchestra

It was with the works in his ‘Jewish cycle’ that Bloch established his creative personality after an apprenticeship gleaning what...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2014

BLACKFORD The Great Animal Orchestra SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals

The Great Animal Orchestra was premiered this summer at the Cheltenham Festival and this recording was made a few days...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2014

CHERUBINI Symphony BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture

The genre of rescue opera runs as a subtextual thread through this intriguing programme, a welcome throwback to more exploratory...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2014

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Concertos

These six – yes, six – Beethoven piano concertos were recorded over a period of years and in different locations....

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2014

BAADSVIK; LINDBERG Tuba Concertos

This is Øystein Baadsvik’s third tuba concerto disc for BIS, previous instalments featuring 20th-century and 21st-century repertoire. The three works...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2014

WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Last year’s new Salzburg Meistersinger plays in the uniform historical setting of the pre-1848 German Biedermeier era. Herheim, his designers...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2014

STRAUSS Elektra

In my Gramophone Collection on Elektra (9/13), five of the recordings were conducted by Karl Böhm. This one, from the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2014

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