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HAYDN Symphonies Nos 96 - 98 (Fischer)

Where Mozart’s symphonic scores tend to be treated as sacrosanct, Haydn’s are often a cue for added ‘effects’, ear-tickling or...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2023

HAYDN; LIGETI 'Perspectives'

A collision of two aesthetic universes here: two minor-key Haydn symphonies, No 49 unremittingly sombre, No 80 trading in bizarre...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2023

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 6 - 8 (Plewniak)

Who would not want to spend a day with Haydn and his friends in the Esterházy court orchestra, grateful no...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2023

DELLO JOIO Oceans Apart

Few recordings have stronger ties to New York City than this one. The composer, Justin Dello Joio, was born and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2023

BRAHMS Piano Concertos (Simon Trpčeski)

First, cards-on-table time. For me Brahms’s B flat Concerto (No 2) is by far the genre’s greatest of the Romantic...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2023

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5; 6 & 8 (Noseda)

I found the first volume of Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC’s Beethoven symphony cycle (11/22)...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2023

BEDFORD in the Voices of the Living

Although he has had ‘portrait’ releases on Col Legno (12/12) and last year on the Bastille Musique label, this is...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2023

JS BACH Goldberg Variations Reimagined (Rachel Podger)

Disillusioned in his Leipzig day job, two recent job applications rejected, grieving over the premature death of his son Gottfried...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2023

BACEWICZ Orchestral Works, Vol 1 (Oramo)

After a flurry of releases underlining the major talent that was Grażyna Bacewicz, perhaps this no-less-admirable contribution from Sakari Oramo...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2023

Exquisitely Absurd: Finnish guitar concertos

Contemporary Finnish guitar concertos may not make the top 10 of anyone’s playlist in a hurry. But if these three...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2023

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