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BARTÓK Racines (Florent Boffard)

Florent Boffard’s credentials as an exponent of modern music are impeccable and well known, as are his recordings. It may...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019

LYATOSHYNSKY Symphony No 3, ‘Peace Shall Defeat War’

Boris Lyatoshynsky (1895-1968) was a slightly older Ukrainian contemporary of Shostakovich, a pupil of Glière. His work was initially very...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2019

MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Gardiner)

John Eliot Gardiner’s recordings of Orfeo and L’incoronazione di Poppea both stretch back several decades but it has taken until...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2019

Münchner Philharmoniker 125 Years

This anniversary set gets off to a solid start with a weighty, plain-spoken 1953 Eroica and a pastorally accented 1956...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2019

The Mumbai Concerts (Mehta)

‘Bombay was an English city during my youth’, Zubin Mehta has noted. His father founded the Bombay Symphony so it’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2019

À Portuguesa

In the wake of the wars of the Portuguese Restoration and the Spanish Succession, the courts of Lisbon and Madrid...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Norfolk Rhapsodies (Yates)

During January 1905 Vaughan Williams paid a visit to King’s Lynn and the surrounding area in order to collect folk...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2019

STRAUSS Violin Concerto. Miniatures (Steinbacher)

What do you do if you’re a violinist wanting to pay homage to Richard Strauss? The composer wrote some fabulous...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8 (Noseda)

I always think that the opening bars of this war-torn essay suggest the flipside, the oppressively dark side, of the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2019

SCHREKER The Birthday of the Infanta (Falletta)

This selection of orchestral music from Schreker’s early to middle period nicely complements the recording of middle to late works...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2019

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