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MOZART Symphonies Nos 39 - 41

The bizarre title, ‘Mozart’s Instrumental Oratorium’, derives from Harnoncourt’s belief that the three late symphonies form a sort of ‘last...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2

Over a dozen new recordings, not to mention an entirely new performing edition, of Bruckner’s youthfully vibrant and at times...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9

Most of the differences between this Bruckner Ninth Symphony, which was recorded in concert just five months before Claudio Abbado’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014

CHARPENTIER Le Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers. La Couronne de Fleurs

The musicians of the Boston Early Music Festival first performed this charming pair of pastorales in 2011. They date very...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2014

Semiramide - La Signora Regale

For Verdi it was King Lear, an opera that was never written, despite the composer’s obsession with the subject. And...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2014

FERRANDINI ‘Al Santo Sepolcro’

The Venetian composer Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1709 91) worked in Munich and then retired to Padua – where he met...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014

HAYDN The Seasons

Haydn’s glorious celebration of the rural world in which he, a wheelwright’s son, grew up has done notably well on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2014

HAYDN Piano Concertos Nos 3, 4 & 11

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has proved himself one of today’s leading Haydn interpreters – amply so on five volumes of sonatas (and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2014

Benjamin Grosvenor: Dances

Benjamin Grosvenor’s selection, simply entitled ‘Dances’, is lovingly planned rather than random. Ranging from Bach to Morton Gould, there are...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014

Canticles from St Paul's

‘Canticles from St Paul’s’ features five settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, with music from the service of Matins...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 09/2014

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