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HOLST The Planets STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra

Edward Gardner directs the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in a traversal of Holst’s The Planets that genuinely excites...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017

SAINT-SAËNS; RAVEL Piano Concertos

The American pianist Andrew von Oeyen has been around for some time (b1979, orchestral debut aged 10). He has, I...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017

GARRIDO-LECCA Peruvian Suite. Symphonic Tableaux

Add Celso Garrido-Lecca (b1926) to the long list of Latin American composers whose music deserves our attention. I’d heard his...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017

GARRIDO-LECCA Peruvian Suite. Symphonic Tableaux

Add Celso Garrido-Lecca (b1926) to the long list of Latin American composers whose music deserves our attention. I’d heard his...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017

DAVIS Napoléon

It will come as little surprise that Beethoven’s Eroica, the symphony he originally dedicated to Napoleon, looms large in Carl...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2017

CASELLA Divertimento per Fulvia GHEDINI Concerto Grosso

This is such an attractive programme that it’s hard to credit that three of the works here are receiving their...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

BRAHMS 4 Serious Songs. Clarinet Sonata No 1

Despite Detlev Glanert’s self-professed feeling for the melancholia and severity of north German music (he was born in Hamburg), his...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2017

BERNSTEIN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

A disc of two halves, for sure: a somewhat sober Jeremiah and a scintillating Age of Anxiety. Perhaps there is...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9

The Ninth at New Year is a Leipzig tradition instituted in 1918 by its music director, Artur Nikisch. The event...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017

LISZT Piano Concerto No 2 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 1

Khatia Buniatishvili, with her trademark slash of red lipstick and tumbling, thick black hair, is among the most charismatic of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017

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