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BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 6 & 9 (Nelsons)

As with previous instalments in Andris Nelsons’s Bruckner cycle (Symphonies Nos 3, 4 and 7), this latest addition combines performances...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2019

BRAHMS Violin Concerto. Double Concerto (T Yang, G Schwabe)

The coupling of Brahms’s Violin Concerto with the Double Concerto isn’t that common on disc but they’re a natural pairing,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2019

BARTÓK The Wooden Price; The Miraculous Mandarin

I wish this disc could have accommodated a complete Miraculous Mandarin rather than just the Concert Suite, particularly as Susanna...

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

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos, Vol 2 (Fabio Bonizzoni)

Fabio Bonizzoni’s first volume of Bach harpsichord concertos with La Risonanza (9/18) gave no clue as to how many would...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto (Maxim Vengerov)

Watch closely during the audience shots on this taping of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s Lucerne Festival debut in 2017 and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019

ANDRE hij (Chiacchiarini)

In the 1960s, ever speculative, Stockhausen proposed the idea of ‘coloured silence’. With, say, a wind player, this meant blowing...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2019

Duo Fantasy

Duo526 were formed in 2011 by the Canadian violinist Kerry DuWors and Japanese pianist Futaba Niekawa while in Charles Castleman’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019

American Reflections

In 2017 the St Charles Singers, 31-strong and drawing on Chicago area professionals, toured England with a programme of music...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2019

CERVETTI Parallel Realms

Sergio Cervetti (b1940) is an American composer but his origins lie in Uruguay. He was a pupil of Krenek, among...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019

American Rapture

The Rochester Philharmonic’s excellent calling card features premiere recordings of Jennifer Higdon’s Harp Concerto, starring Yolanda Kondonassis, and Patrick Harlin’s...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2019

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