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ROSSINI Semiramide (Elder)

Semiramide is the last, and longest, of the 32 operas Rossini wrote for Italy. Based on Voltaire’s tragedy Sémiramis (1748),...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW18

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Barenboim)

What a difference an orchestra makes: an orchestra, mind you, that has been nurtured and honed for the best part...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW18

KORNGOLD; NIELSEN Violin Concertos (Jiyoon Lee)

Jiyoon Lee won joint first prize at the 2016 Carl Nielsen Violin Competition, so it is unsurprising, perhaps, that she...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018

JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites (Yo-Yo Ma)

Regular readers of Gramophone will surely know that there are numerous exceptional recordings of Bach’s six Cello Suites, from Casals...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW18

The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Collection

There’s definitely something to be said for having a musician select a personal choice of favourites among his or her...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW18

WORDSWORTH Orchestral Music No 1

Toccata’s heartening excavation of music by the fringe but principled figure of William Wordsworth (1908 88) comes with a frank...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW18

STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie (Orozco-Estrada)

This is the third Richard Strauss release from Andrés Orozco-Estrada and his Frankfurt orchestra on Pentatone. I enjoyed their Heldenleben...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18

SIBELIUS King Chistian II Suite. Finalndia (Søndergård)

We are still awaiting Symphonies Nos 3 5 in Thomas Søndergård’s BBC NOW Sibelius cycle but in the meantime comes...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 (Urbański)

It was ‘the worst of times’. In his excellent booklet note, conductor Krzysztof Urbański recounts the background to Shostakovich’s Fifth...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW18

SCHUBERT Symphony No 9 (König; Jansons)

Rendering (1988 89), a late instalment in Berio’s long-term engagement with the music of the past, now exists in more...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW18

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