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IRELAND Orchestral Works (Wilson)

Anyone who invested in John Wilson’s admirable Ireland release with the Hallé (12/09) will naturally be wondering whether it’s worth...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2022

HAYDN Complete Symphonies, Vol 26 (Klumpp)

Pity poor HobI:107, aka Symphony ‘A’. Long thought to be a quartet (Op 1 No 5) rather than a symphony...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2022

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Poschner)

On completion in 2024, Markus Poschner’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies will include all three versions of the Fourth Symphony....

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2022

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2 WEBERN Concerto Op 24 (Pina Napolitano)

Reviewing Pina Napolitano’s first ‘Brahms the Progressive’ recording (7/18), I wrote how the pianist seemed more confident and commanding in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2022

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Blomstedt)

Herbert Blomstedt is a member of a much-respected senior ‘rostrum elite’ (Haitink, Boult, Böhm, Wand and the like) that over...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2022

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 STUCKY Silent Spring

Manfred Honeck’s Beethoven does not ‘speak for itself’, whatever that is supposed to mean. Indeed, this Pastoral delivers something to...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2022

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos (Luks)

Following in Bach’s footsteps is never straightforward – few of the locations associated with him are quite what they seem....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2022

FAURÉ Complete Songs (Cyrille Dubois, Tristan Raës)

Here’s a delicious treat that should have all lovers of French mélodies salivating. Complete sets of Gabriel Fauré’s songs are...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2022

Jordan Bak: Impulse

For his solo debut album, the Jamaican-American viola player Jordan Bak has put together a recital of daringly introspective music...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2022

SUMMER Hamlet

The American composer Joseph Summer (b1956) is no stranger to opera, having written several comic operas early in his career,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022

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