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BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 & 5 (Fischer)

Iván Fischer leads a polished and powerful account of Beethoven’s Fifth, although he makes a few odd interpretative choices along...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2019

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (Fischer)

If you’re after a rationale behind this extraordinary set of performances, Fischer himself provides one in the booklet interview accompanying...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2019

JS BACH Trumpet Concertos (Matthias Höfs)

No modern-day piccolo trumpet soloist offers the security, delicacy and effortless élan of Matthias Höfs in 18th-century repertoire, as witnessed...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2019

JS, JB & JL BACH Overtures for Orchestra. JB BACH Suites

Rinaldo Alessandrini’s new recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites may well be the danciest ever. Thirteen years after his joyful account...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2019

ARENSKY Chamber Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade

Robin Holloway remarked that everything in Tchaikovsky’s work truest to his genius ‘aspires to the condition of ballet’: a perception...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2019

The Mathilde Album (Quatour Arod)

Come for the sex, stay for the music. That would seem to be the implication behind the title of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

GERSHWIN; STRAVINSKY; VARESE Transatlantic

Here’s the recording premiere of a new critical edition of Gershwin’s An American in Paris, and it’s given in two...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2019

FALLA El Sombrero de Tres Picos. El Amor Brujo (Heras-Casado)

El sombrero de tres picos was first performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at London’s Alhambra Theatre in the summer of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2019

PURCELL King Arthur (McCreesh)

The Gabrieli Consort & Players have been developing ideas about King Arthur (or The British Worthy) for nearly a quarter...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2019

Preach Sister, Preach

Katherine Jolly is a rather good operatic and recital soprano, teacher – variously at St Louis and Indiana Universities and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019

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