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RUDERS Viola Concerto. Handel Variations

Poul Ruders’s Viola Concerto was written in 1993 94, between his First Cello Concerto, Anima, and First Piano Concerto, but...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Ashkenazy)

Vladimir Ashkenazy has always conducted Rachmaninov’s most extended symphony with conviction, making it feel not one bar too long. Indeed,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2018

PALUMBO Three Concertos

If you want to read a glowing review of at least one work on this disc, you can do so...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2018

MOZART Piano Concerto No 21 (Yeol Eum Son)

The South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son (b1986) is already something of a veteran, having performed with the New York...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Vänskä)

The distinction between objectivity and subjectivity is crucial in Mahler and it doesn’t take long to establish that Vänskä’s bias...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Gimeno)

Setting this new studio recording of Mahler’s teenage piano quartet movement, as elaborated by Colin Matthews, against a more congested...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Chailly)

At least on record, the Leipzig Gewandhaus does not have much of a Mahler tradition – Masur and Neumann briskly...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018

DEBUSSY La Mer. Images (Krivine)

Emmanuel Krivine’s new La mer with the Orchestre National de France focuses on the much-discussed question of Debussy’s decision, on...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2018

CZERNY Piano Concerto

The third release in Naxos’s survey of Carl Czerny’s works for piano and orchestra offers two recorded premieres, both dating...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Giulini)

Despite their interest in Bruckner’s output being quite selective, both Kurt Sanderling and Carlo Maria Giulini made a number of...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2018

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