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PADE ‘The Orchestral Album’ (Gustafsson)

At last the spotlight of revisionism is swinging its beam towards Else Marie Pade (1924-2016). The sidelined Danish composer gets...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2023

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3, 4 & 5 (Luisi)

These are quite marvellous – and in the case of the Fourth Symphony, incendiary – performances. There’s something about the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2023

NETZEL; SANDSTRÖM; TARRODI Piano Concertos (Peter Friis Johansson)

Evidently a pianist keen to extend the repertoire through exploring its byways and extending its compass, Peter Friis Johansson demonstrates...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Bernard)

Here is another recording that will mean more to attendees of the associated live event than those seeking a general...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2023

Christian-Pierre La Marca: Legacy

Haydn’s cello concertos may top and tail the running order but this programme hinges around the figure of Nicola Porpora...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

HAYDN 'Symphonies, Vol 13 – Hornsignal’ (Antonini)

Eight years, 13 volumes and 41 symphonies into his ambitious ‘Haydn 2032’ project, Giovanni Antonini selects three works in which...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

MILHAUD La Création du Monde ELGAR Enigma Variations (Ward)

The Maastricht-based Philharmonie Zuidnederland has been building a notable discography during recent years, with its latest release on Fuga Libera...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023

ELGAR Viola Concerto BLOCH Suite for Viola and Orchestra (Timothy Ridout)

The first thing worth mentioning about this remarkable recording is the sound, an Andrew Keener production with engineer Dave Rowell...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Järvi)

There was a time between 1906 and 1949, during the 43-year stewardship of chief conductor Volkmar Andreae, when Zurich’s Tonhalle...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 'Romantic' (Poschner)

'An 1876 version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony?’ I hear diehard Brucknerians asking. ‘Have I have been missing something all these...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2023

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