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MOZART Symphonies Nos 39 & 40 (Popelka)

Petr Popelka has recently relinquished the chief conductorship of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, which he held from 2020. As a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW23

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 23 & 14 (Dejan Lazic)

The Croatian pianist Dejan Lazić grew up in Salzburg and studied at the city’s Mozarteum. One...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW23

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 9 & 24 (Lars Vogt)

These recordings were made in late April 2021, when Lars Vogt was already seriously ill with cancer. To be reviewing...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW23

MOZART The Violin Concertos (Renaud Capuçon)

A previous Renaud Capuçon Mozart recording with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Louis Langrée (Concertos Nos 1 and 3, with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW23

MARTINŮ Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra (Josef Špaček, Miroslav Sekera)

Martinů’s eccentric compositional fluency can throw even ardent admirers off the scent. Of the three works included in the present...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW23

MANEEIN; SHOSTAKOVICH Dependent Arising (Rachel Barton Pine)

According to Rachel Barton Pine, ‘There is perhaps no classical composer who is more beloved to metalheads than Shostakovich’. I’m...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW23

HAYDN Symphonies (Antonini; Fischer)

The latest volume of Giovanni Antonini’s ever-enticing Haydn cycle takes its title from Symphony No 53, L’Impériale, and couples that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW23

GLASS; VILLA-LOBOS 'Amazonia'

During his sojourn in Paris in the late 1920s, Heitor Villa-Lobos regaled the capital’s musical circles with derring-do tales of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW23

DUTILLEUX; WEINBERG Cello Concertos (Edgar Moreau)

Hot on the heels of Victor Julien-Laferrière and David Robertson’s recent recording of Henri Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lointain …...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Rattle)

Over quarter of a century separates Simon Rattle’s first recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, made under studio conditions with the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW23

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