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PROKOFIEV Symphony No 2 SCHNITTKE Concerto for Piano and Strings (Franz-Welser-Möst)

Once Prokofiev resolved to remake himself as a Soviet composer in the 1930s his Second Symphony (1924 25) provided a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2021

MOZART Wind Concertos (Martin)

Having recorded the five violin concertos with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, the LSO now present a selection of the wind concertos. Szeps-Znaider...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021

LARCHER Symphony No. 2 'Kenotaph'. Die Nacht der Verlorenen

Best known for his chamber and vocal music (notably the highly regarded A Padmore Cycle – Harmonia Mundi, 6/14), Thomas...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2021

HAYDN Symphonies Vol 25 (Klumpp)

Having appointed Johannes Klumpp their new artistic director, the Heidelberger Sinfoniker, founded in 1993 by Thomas Fey, now undertake to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Haitink)

Shortly before his farewell concert performances of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic in August and September 2019, the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 4 & '6' (Gianluca Cascioli)

Harmonia Mundi, which celebrated Beethoven’s semiquincentenary with original-instrument performances of the five canonic concertos and Choral Fantasy with Kristian Bezuidenhout...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2021

BRITTEN Turn of the Screw (Wilson)

How inspired of OperaGlass Works’ founders Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson to identify Wilton’s venerable Music Hall as the perfect...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2021

Marianne Crebassa: Séguedilles

Marianne Crebassa’s ‘Séguedilles’ has its origins in family history. Her maternal grandparents, she tells us in a booklet note, were...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2021

JOSQUIN In Memoria Mea

If you’ve ever caught yourself regretting the uniformity of performance approaches to Renaissance vocal music, this disc may be for...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2021

Bruce Liu: Chopin

Here is a selection of performances from the various stages of the recent International Chopin Piano Competition played by the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2021

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