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MOZART Serenades (González-Monjas)

The peal and clatter of D major, resplendent with horns and trumpets and the bright resonance of open strings, resounds...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2023

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 1, 2, 3 & 5 (Robert Levin)

Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music’s belated push to complete their recording of Mozart’s entire output for keyboard...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2023

MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Santtu)

Like so much of what I’ve heard of Santtu’s work of late, this Mahler Symphony No 2 is decidedly hit...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2023

LOCATELLI Il virtuoso, il poeta

Locatelli recordings often come in the form of complete opus numbers, so it makes a nice change to encounter a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2023

VAN KLENAU Concertos. Symphony No 8 (Graf)

Paul von Klenau (1883-1946) was a Danish composer who went from writing like Bruckner to writing like Schoenberg, living much...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2023

HISAISHI A Symphonic Celebration

Hitchcock and Herrmann, Spielberg and Williams – director-composer pairings among whom writer Michael Beek nominates as co-companions Hayao Miyazaki and...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2023

HANDEL 'Water and Fire'

These are spirited, uplifting performances of the most popular of Handel’s orchestral works, played on period instruments about a semitone...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2023

GRISEY Dérives

If, in Boulez’s Pli selon pli, you’ve ever wanted those bewitchingly beautiful chords to last longer than a couple of...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 10/2023

GLAZUNOV; SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concertos (Rudolf Koelman)

Here we have an attractive pairing of violin concertos that are not over-represented in the recording catalogues: Saint-Saëns’s Third and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023

CHEN GANG Butterfly Lovers

Transcription often allows music one knows well to be heard in new or different contexts – think of Busoni’s reworkings...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2023

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