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DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. The Noon Witch

With this live recording of the Ninth, Marcus Bosch is close to concluding his Dvořák cycle for Coviello. As in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 STRAUSS Don Quixote

The headline act in this January 2016 Munich concert was the cellist Yo-Yo Ma as the eponymous hero of Richard...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2017

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Thielemann)

This is the second version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony on DVD and Blu-ray disc conducted by Christian Thielemann to appear...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

Sakari Oramo’s recent Ostrobothnian CO version of Britten’s Frank Bridge Variations (Alba, 9/16) served up plenty of food for thought....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2017

BRAHMS Piano Concertos

This is a recording made at concerts Rudolf Buchbinder gave with Zubin Mehta and the VPO in the Goldener Saal...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2017

SCHOENBERG; BARTÓK Piano Concertos

For Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto to sound effective the listener must be able to feel utterly at home in the work,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

J B BACH Overtures

How many careless shoppers, I wonder, will buy this disc thinking it contains the four Ouvertures (or Orchestral Suites) of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2017

FAGERLUND; AHO Bassoon Concertos

Sebastian Fagerlund’s violin concerto Darkness in Light mightily impressed me on disc (5/15) and his no less involving bassoon concerto...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2017

VERDELOT; GANASSI Madrigals

Like so many 16th-century instrumental tutors, Sylvestro Ganassi’s La Fontegara (1535) begins by stating that all musical instruments are inferior...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2017

Heracleitus

The latest release from the admirable English Music Festival’s in-house label is a recital of songs and chamber music by...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2017

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