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BRUCKNER Symphony No 3 (Thielemann)

This second release in Christian Thielemann’s new cycle of the Bruckner symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic was recorded in the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Concertos (Gil Shaham. Liya Petrova)

Two fascinating releases, both of which utterly confound expectations. The high point, for me, is the slow movement of the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2021

BEETHOVEN Theatre Music, Vol 2 (Bosch)

The accepted view is that Beethoven’s heroic style died a heroic death in the drum-banging, flag-waving political projects he took...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Igor Levit; Xiaohan Wang)

In 2007 Naxos issued a set of live performances of all five Beethoven piano concertos stemming from that year’s Bonn...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2021

BARRY The Eternal Recurrence BEETHOVEN Symphonies 7-9 (Adès)

The blossoming rapport between Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia documented on the first two volumes of their Beethoven cycle...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2021

Mozart Momentum 1785

How inspiring that something so enriching should have come out of lockdown, for the three concertos and the Masonic Funeral...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2021

Two Stravinsky Anniversary Editions

A decade after Stravinsky’s death in New York (my feature last month mistakenly asserted Venice), Alexander Goehr observed how his...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2021

Eugene Ormandy - The Columbia Legacy

This collection is certainly a colourful affair, an old curiosity shop of a box among whose 120 CDs (selling for...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2021

Visca L'amor: Catalan Art Songs of the XX and XXI Centuries

This varied selection of Catalan art songs by tenor Isaí Jess Muñoz, including one he and his wife Oksana Glouchko...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2021

Symphonic Roar: An Odyssey of Sound from the Paris Conservatoire

The impetus for this debut album by Yuri McCoy was to celebrate the French Romantic organ and the gloriously rich,...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 05/2021

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