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TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake

‘Tchaikovsky Swan Lake’, declares the booklet cover to this Sony CD. Caveat emptor. What you get is a concert suite....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

The unusual trajectory of Mélodie Zhao’s recording career began with a set of Chopin Etudes, recorded when she was 13,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY Les Noces

Marrying Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Les noces makes for a bizarre mismatch. Teodor Currentzis and his Perm orchestra MusicAeterna are...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016

STRAUSS Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Duett-Concertino

This disc is part showcase, part demonstration of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana’s own links with Richard Strauss. Five bonus...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2016

SIBELIUS Symphony No 2. Lemminkäinen’s Return

Regional French orchestras might have as much pedigree recording Sibelius as the Finns do making wine, but there aren’t any...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2016

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 1, 3 & 4

Philippe Herreweghe’s previous excursions on disc with Schubert’s symphonies were the Ninth in 2011 and the Sixth and Eighth in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016

SCHNEIDER Ark World. Sounds of Nature

Born in 1950, Enjott Schneider taught for many years at Munich’s University of Music and Performing Arts. His sizeable output...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2016

SAINT-SAËNS Complete Violin Concertos

Some of Saint-Saëns’s finest works are for the violin. One violinist in particular was the inspiration and beneficiary of these:...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016

RÓŻYCKI Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

The first thing to say (because it is the first thing you will notice when you play this disc) is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016

RIHM Two Other Movements. Schattenstück

This latest addition to Southwest Radio’s survey of Wolfgang Rihm’s orchestral music offers the chance to compare Two Other Movements,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2016

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