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VIVALDI 'Concerti per archi II'

Artist biographies do not usually outweigh the essay in booklets for Naïve’s Vivaldi Edition but it is fair to concede...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2014

VIVALDI Tromba Veneziana

Not even in the heady days of Maurice André’s voluminous transcriptions of Baroque sonatas and concertos for Erato (all available...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2014

SIBELIUS Symphonies 6 & 7

The opening pages of the Sixth Symphony always sound to me like we’re looking at an illuminated manuscript – a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2014

SIBELIUS Violin Concerto

Hearing these two new versions of the Sibelius Violin Concerto prompts the question: is it the last of the great...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2014

SAINT-SAËNS Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra

Last autumn the Capuçon brothers, Renaud and Gautier, brought out a fine disc of Saint-Saëns’s La Muse et le poète...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014

MOZART Symphony in D, K385. Posthorn Serenade. March No 1, K335

A Harnoncourt recording will always leave a reviewer with a full page of notes, but let me go straight to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014

MOERAN In the Mountain Country. Rhapsodies Nos 1 & 2

This is a welcome addition by the Ulster Orchestra and JoAnn Falletta to the recording of Moeran’s orchestral rhapsodies and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2014

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 5

A very distinctive coupling this, stylised in the extreme and with a keen-eared approach to dynamics that is quite unlike...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014

MAHLER Symphony No 2

Mahler enthusiasts have cause to be grateful to Gilbert Kaplan, the biggest enthusiast of them all, one moreover with the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014

A Tribute to Erling Blondal Bengtsson Vol 3

This latest Danacord issue is designed as a memorial tribute to the great Danish cellist Erling Blöndahl Bengtsson, who died...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2014

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