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PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf

Two updated versions of Peter and the Wolf in the same month? Must be Christmas. The first is a knock-out...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2015

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 4 & 6

No fewer than three recent Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra chiefs have been recording Prokofiev symphonies, in Bergen and São Paulo as...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015

STRAVINSKY Petruschka MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Here is more seemingly effortless music-making from Mariss Jansons. The interpretations of both pieces being broadly consistent with those he...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015

MOZART Symphony No 40

John Barbirolli came to Wagner in an age when orchestras were often smaller, pitch lower, and good conductors routinely versed...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2015

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 8, 11 & 13

An odd suggestion, perhaps, but start by playing the Larghetto of K413. Conductor Michael Alexander Willens sets the scene, the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 10

Given that it was Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s tonally luxuriant Philadelphia Orchestra that made the first commercial recording of the reconstructed Tenth...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015

DVOŘÁK; GLAZUNOV Violin Concertos

Somewhere in this Somm release is a more characterful one struggling to get out. The soloist, the Greek violinist Efi...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 12/2015

ENESCU Symphony No 4. Chamber Symphony

Peter Ruzicka follows his pioneering disc of Enescu’s Fifth Symphony and Isis (10/14) with the earlier of the Romanian’s unfinished...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2015

DUTILLEUX Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain"

Henri Dutilleux’s Cello Concerto Tout un monde lointain… (1970) is so intimately wrapped up in his relationship with Mstislav Rostropovich,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR; H WOOD Violin Concertos

Tasmin Little’s magnificent new recording of the irresistibly tuneful and big-hearted Violin Concerto that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor wrote in 1912 for...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015

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