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SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

This disc appears almost simultaneously with Antonio Pappano’s very appealing live recordings of the same two symphonies (reviewed in the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2016

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 4 & 7

Is Valery Gergiev unchallengeable in this repertoire? He may be at something like his best in his recent Mariinsky remakes...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2016

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 4

How many times have I regretted a shortage of fantasy, flair and fairy-tale imagination in recordings of the Prokofiev piano...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2016

Penderecki Conducts Penderecki

This interesting collection of sacred music by Penderecki includes works from various periods of his life. The Psalms of David,...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2016

MOSZKOWSKI From Foreign Lands - Rediscovered Orchestral Works

Why concert promoters and record labels have such trouble with Moszkowski I’ll never know, especially his once-celebrated orchestral music. For...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016

MAIER Violin Concerto. Piano Quartet

Reading Erik Nilsson’s biographical summary of Amanda Maier’s short life (1853 94) and its aftermath – together with his ‘open...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2016

MAHLER Symphony No 10 (Gamzou)

In the wake of Thomas Dausgaard’s remarkably cogent reading of the Deryck Cooke ‘performing version’ of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony, there...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2016

MAHLER Symphony No 2

This is such a bewildering mix of the prosaic, the indifferent and the inconsistent that it is hard to know...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2016

KHACHATURIAN Symphony No 2. 3 Concert Arias

London bus syndrome strikes: you wait over 20 years for a new recording of Khachaturian’s Second Symphony – dubbed ‘Symphony...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016

HILL; BOYLE Piano Concertos

Few of us, I suspect, will have encountered either of these Australian composers, so a brief introduction is in order....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016

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