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A WILLIAMS Orchestral Works (Woods)

The English Symphony Orchestra and Kenneth Woods’s ‘21st Century Symphony Project’ goes from strength to strength: Philip Sawyers’s Third (10/17;...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2022

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 6 & 8 (Brabbins)

We’ve reached the penultimate volume in Martyn Brabbins’s stimulating RVW symphony cycle for Hyperion. Proceedings are launched with a scrupulously...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2022

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Kitezh Suite

Noseda’s account of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth doesn’t put a foot wrong but leaves one wanting so much more. I could leave...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2022

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 3 & 5. Pohjola's Daughter (Rouvali)

Following the impressive earlier releases of the First and Second Symphonies (3/19, 4/20), Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s Sibelius cycle continues with notable...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2022

SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy. Prometheus (Yevgeny Sudbin)

Not even Breaking Bad-style blue meth – so I would imagine – can rival Scriabin’s mind-altering explorations of the celestial...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2022

SCHUMANN Symphony Nos 1 & 2 (Alsop. Re-orch. Mahler)

A piece of music (or indeed any work of art) exists on two temporal planes: as an artefact of its...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022

ROTT Symphony No 1 (Hrůša)

Hans Rott was 19 when he composed the first movement of his Symphony for a competition at the Vienna Conservatory...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2022

POULENC Sinfoniettas (Slobodeniouk) Orchestral Works (Tovey)

These overlapping collections reflect persuasive if divergent ideas about programme-building and interpretation. Common to both is Poulenc’s Sinfonietta, written for...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2022

MENDELSSOHN Orchestral Works (Biondi)

Unless I’m mistaken, aside from their 2018 account of Verdi’s Macbeth in its original 1847 version, Fabio Biondi and Europa...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2022

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Rattle)

In a matter of only weeks before this recording arrived for review I’d been privileged to witness two great (and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2022

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