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Amy Dickson: Glass

Given the saxophone’s importance in early minimalist scores and its central role in defining the unique sound of Glass’s ensemble...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017

DEVIENNE Flute Concertos Nos 5 - 8

Pity François Devienne, who died in the Charenton asylum of derangement brought about (according to a sympathetic pupil) ‘by the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Thielemann)

Towards the end of the Scherzo, the camera catches a viola player giving a smile to a colleague. It’s a...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2017

BRUCKNER Symphonies No 2 (Ivor Bolton)

Despite Ivor Bolton’s Bruckner recordings having been praised in these pages by Peter Quantrill, Richard Osborne and Edward Greenfield, the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2017

BRAHMS Complete Symphonies

Twenty years ago, much was made of an attempt by Sir Charles Mackerras to recover a performing tradition familiar to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 - Elbphilharmonie First Recording

These recordings are the first to be made in the new 2100-seat concert hall that sits at the heart of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2017

BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique

Emmanuel Krivine’s account of the Symphonie fantastique, sensitively filmed at the Cité de la Musique in 2014 during La Chambre...

Reviewed by David Allen in issue: 04/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2, 4 & 7. Overtures

I’ve always thought of Beethoven’s Second as the first stage on his revolutionary symphonic journey, as much a leap forwards...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2017

TELEMANN; CORELLI; BACH Concertos

This is, I think, a first release from Höör Barock, the orchestra founded in 2012 to perform at the festival...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2017

ADÈS Asyla. Brahms. Polaris

Any route taken through the music of Thomas Adès sooner or later must confront the irresistible force and power of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017

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