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BERNSTEIN Suite for Orchestra. Slava! Anniversaries. Fancy Free (Alsop)

Those disinclined to acquire Marin Alsop’s Bernstein edition in boxed form, handsome though it is, will welcome the release of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2018

BERIO Sinfonia BOULEZ Notations I-IV RAVEL La valse (Morlot)

In the documentary Voyage to Cythera, Berio makes it clear that the many musical references in the third movement of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018

BEINTUS Le Petit Prince RIHM Das Gehege (Nagano)

Kent Nagano’s absence from the UK for two decades has been to others’ benefit – not least the Bavarian State...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2018

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 7 (Jordan)

I’m not entirely sure why the name of the great early 20th-century Beethoven conductor Felix Weingartner came to mind as...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 4 & 5

This new account of Beethoven’s last two piano concertos finds Nicholas Angelich in the company of Laurence Equilbey’s period-instrument Insula...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2018

Revive: Baroque Arrangements for Saxophone Quartet

The Ferio Saxophone Quartet made their debut on Chandos last year with ‘Flux’, an imaginatively programmed disc of Romantic and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2018

In the Theatre of Air (Marsyas Trio)

The remit of the Marsyas Trio is ‘to inspire a generation of new works’ for the combination of flute, cello...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018

STRAVINSKY The Soldier's Tale

Rock legend Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd and creator of The Wall, joins forces with players from Long Island’s...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2018

W BENNETT Sextet. Chamber Trio. String Quartet

William Sterndale Bennett completed his String Quartet in 1831; he was 15 and halfway through his 10 years of study...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018

SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 10 & 14 (Van Kuijk Quartet)

The surface finish of these performances by the Van Kuijk Quartet is astonishing, and particularly so given the quartet formed...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018

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