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HAYDN Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 4 STRAVINSKY Divertimento (Rosanne Philippens)

This is Rosanne Philippens’s first album with The Vondel Strings, a new ensemble which she founded last year during the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Poschner)

Previous recordings of the Bruckner symphonic canon have sometimes included the unnumbered F minor and D minor entries in the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Thielemann)

Few performances thought worthy of being preserved on record are without merit. There are occasions, however, as in this account...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2021

BRAHMS Symphony No 4 MACMILLAN Larghetto for Orchestra (Honeck)

Now into the 14th season of a projected 20-year stint as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2021

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 5 MOZART Gran Partita 'Farewell from Zurich' (Harnoncourt)

Third time lucky I’d say applies more than ever to Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s three recordings of Beethoven’s Fifth. The first, a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021

BARTÓK; BEETHOVEN; BERG Violin Concertos (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

Handsome isn’t the word. A blue and gold gatefold oblong package, one half casing two CDs and a Blu ray...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021

BARBER; BERNSTEIN; COPLAND 'Sounds of America' (Bernard)

I am not familiar with previous recordings from the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and their conductor David Bernard, but there...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2021

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos (Isabelle Faust, Antoine Tamestit)

It’s heartening that this, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin’s second recording of the Brandenburg Concertos, took place in the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2021

PRICE Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Nézet-Séguin)

This has been a fascinating experience. I chose to come to this music – exhumed as it is from nearly...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2021

BUSONI Sonatinas (Victor Nicoara)

The Romanian pianist and composer Victor Nicoara was born and educated in Bucharest, later studied at the Royal College of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW21

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