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BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 2 & 5 (Poschner)

Markus Poschner’s recording of the 1877 version of the Second Symphony features a new edition by the Bruckner scholar Paul...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 0 (Nelsons)

With a conclusively established dating of its composition to 1869 – between Nos 1 and 2 – Bruckner’s first D...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Kreutzer Sonata (Nemanja Radulović)

Nemanja Radulović takes complete control of every aspect of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, playing the solo part while leading his own...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024

CPE BACH Hamburg Symphonies Wq 182 (Janiczek)

For inspired craziness no 18th-century composer, surely, can touch Emanuel Bach. When Baron van Swieten, of Haydn Creation fame, commissioned...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2024

SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No 1 (Bruno Philippe)

You know when every aspect of an album just sings? Well, this is one of those, and not only because...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024

Lowell Liebermann Plays Piano Music of Theodor Kirchner

Lowell Liebermann’s prowess at the keyboard usually takes a back seat to his prominence as a composer. He made up...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024

GLASS 'Signature' (Angèle Dubeau)

Philip Glass’s music was the first to be featured in the series of ‘portrait’ albums by violinist Angèle Dubeau and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2024

BOYCE The Bird is an Alphabet

For the American composer Douglas Boyce, writing music is an act of philosophising. Each of the recent vocal-chamber works gathered...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2024

ADLER Unholy Sonnets

While not an ardent fan of the art song medium, I have to say that this new Navona album of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024

Verismo: Preludi e Intermezzi

Seeing the words Hindoyan and verismo in close conjunction I’d lazily anticipated a joint recital disc with the conductor’s wife,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2023

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