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STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie

The booklet-note for this release makes some bold claims regarding Kent Nagano’s account of Eine Alpensinfonie with his Gothenburg orchestra....

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW16

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1

‘Vengeance is mine, I shall repay’ is grimly inscribed on the opening page of Rachmaninov’s First Symphony. Each movement opens...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW16

PUTS Symphony No 2. Flute Concerto

Kevin Puts’s music has an optimism and directness that, at least on its surface, harks back to mid-century American composers...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 6 & 7

Here is the second release in James Gaffigan’s projected Prokofiev symphony cycle, a series that suddenly finds itself one among...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16

PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos

Like James Ehnes before him, Vadim Gluzman has now set down all Prokofiev’s major works for solo violin, albeit spread...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16

NORDAL Choralis

Jón Nordal (b1926) was an acolyte of Paul Hindemith, whose visit to Darmstadt in 1957 silenced him for nearly a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16

MENDELSSOHN; SCHUMANN Violin Concertos

Perhaps we shouldn’t enquire too deeply into the reasons for the sudden blossoming of Schumann’s Violin Concerto as a repertoire...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW16

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 2 MOZART Piano Concerto No 21

Lars Vogt here swaps the keyboard for the podium in a disc that showcases his erstwhile pupil Danae Dörken, still...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16

MELARTIN Traumgesicht. Marjatta.Music from The Blue Pearl

Seeking to identify the author of Traumgesicht (‘Dream Visage’), the innocent ear might guess early Delius or someone else under...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW16

MAHLER Symphony No 9

This isn’t at all the Mahler Ninth one might have expected from Barenboim – although maybe, just maybe, his profound...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW16

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