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CHOPIN Piano Concertos (Yundi)

Yundi has been associated with Chopin ever since he became the youngest-ever winner of the eponymous competition in Warsaw in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2020

CHERUBINI Discoveries

Before one gets too excited at the tagline ‘9 world premiere recordings’ on this all-Cherubini disc from Riccardo Chailly and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Dausgaard)

The word ‘chivalrous’ invariably comes to mind with the opening measures of Bruckner’s Sixth: knights errant galloping towards new adventures,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2020

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1 (Vienna version, 1891, Schaller)

Since 1935, when both the Linz and Vienna editions of Bruckner’s First Symphony were published by Robert Haas, conductors and...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020

BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique (Fischer)

It’s unfortunate timing for Hyperion that its new disc of the Symphonie fantastique follows hot on the heels of Les...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 (Forck)

Justin Heinrich Knecht’s five-movement Portrait musical de la Nature, ou Grande Simphonie (1783) begins with an evocation of Arcadian bliss...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 5 (Currentzis)

To make Beethoven’s Fifth sound fresh seems a Herculean task, yet that’s what Teodor Currentzis accomplishes here in a relentlessly...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020

JS BACH St Matthew Passion (Suzuki)

To embark on a second recording of the St Matthew Passion 20 or so years after an admired reading with...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2020

Steven Masi: Brahmsiana

There have been many fine recordings of Brahms’s Opp 117 and 118 in recent years: Barry Douglas and Jonathan Plowright...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020

REALE Stroke of Midnight

The composer’s booklet note (written in spring last year) here opens in melancholic mood, with the news that he had,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020

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