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Qigang Chen is something of a sound magician. In fact, the day this CD arrived I’d invested in and just...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2019

NIELSEN Violin Concerto (Lisa Jacobs)

Lisa Jacobs plays with firm tone and admirable technical control in these live performances, and I’m particularly taken with the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2019

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (Kitajenko)

The wildest thing about this tour of Mussorgsky’s gallery is Ilya Repin’s portrait of the composer on the cover. It...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2019

MOZART Symphony No 40 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (Nelsons)

Last year Accentus released the complete inaugural concert of Andris Nelsons as Gewandhaus-kapellmeister (11/18) and it’s a shame that their...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39-41 (Savall)

This is, in certain ways, a most peculiar project. Jordi Savall’s approach to Mozart’s three final symphonies bears a clear...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019

MARSALIS Violin Concerto. Fiddle Dance Suite (Benedetti)

A number of things become clearer as Wynton Marsalis’s Violin Concerto unfolds. First, that there’s a story to be told,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Nelsons)

The Vienna Philharmonic rarely has call for a saxophone quintet. Another incidental pleasure of this Salzburg Festival matinee film is...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019

HONEGGER Symphony No 2 SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

The Baltic Chamber Orchestra from St Petersburg follow up their canny pairing of Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony greatly...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019

The Orchestral Music of Jonathan Dove

In a passionate and well-observed booklet note, Timothy Redmond asks why no recording of Jonathan Dove’s orchestral music has existed...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019

DESSNER El Chan. Concerto for 2 Pianos

The Labèque sisters have dipped their collective musical feet in minimalist waters many times in recent years, as heard on...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2019

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