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BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Fischer)

Almost a decade after the release of his recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony (8/14), Iván Fischer has now turned his...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2022

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Rattle)

This exceptional new recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony is the more remarkable when one considers...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2022

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Luisi)

‘It will be intimate Brahms with a lot of grandeur, and this is what counts for me’, says Fabio Luisi...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2022

BERG Violin Concertos (Christian Tetzlaff; James Ehnes)

Riches indeed to have not one but two accounts of the Berg Concerto. James Ehnes and Christian Tetzlaff are unquestionably...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2022

BEETHOVEN; STRAVINSKY Violin Concertos (Vilde Frang)

This is what can happen when you open the birdcage. In the Beethoven Concerto, Vilde Frang, the freest of spirits,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2022

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Noseda)

Gianandrea Noseda and Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra inaugurate their new Beethoven symphony cycle with this pair of plainspoken performances. Aside...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2022

BYRD Pslames, Songs and Sonnets of 1611

With 2023 marking the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death, you might be expecting a surge in recordings of his...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2022

Two Sides

This is a gripping if curiously conceived album, divided unequally between an entertaining clutch of sinfonias, concertos and trio sonatas...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2022

The Kreutzer Project (The Knights)

Anna Clyne’s quotation from Tolstoy as the inspiration for her Shorthand – ‘music is the shorthand of emotion’ – serves...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2022

TANGUY Chamber Works

Usually, contemporary composers’ works are promoted by one or two labels, but the discography of Éric Tanguy (b1968) is remarkably...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2022

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