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PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 (Noseda)
Not quite 20 years since the LSO recorded its last Prokofiev symphony cycle in a concentrated burst of performances at...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2024
MUSTONEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 (Mustonen)
It is a curious feature of Olli Mustonen the composer that, rather like Stravinsky, he has written relatively little for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
MOZART Symphonies Nos 29 & 40 (Emelyanychev)
This account of Mozart’s Symphony No 40 follows Il Pomo d’Oro’s recording of No 41, the Jupiter (4/23); no doubt...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2024
'Mozart 1791'
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is most commonly coupled on recordings with the Clarinet Quintet or with a complementary concerto by another...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 7 & 10 (Cummings)
The latest stop on Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music’s belated traversal of Mozart’s complete output for keyboard...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 3 & 5 (Emelyanychev)
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra made a wise choice when it elected Maxim Emelyanychev as its principal conductor. He’s a fine...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2024
MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Vänskä)
The Eighth is often the Mahler symphony that seems to inspire conductors who fall short in the others. That’s a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2024
LEIVISKÄ Orchestral Works Vol 1 (Stasevska)
The ever-inquiring BIS label begins another series devoted to the orchestral output of Helvi Leiviskä (1902 82). Variously composer, critic...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024
KUUSISTO Symphony Op 39. Pictured Within. Birthday Variations for M.C.B
An odd coupling, but you can just about get on board with the idea of two large pieces celebrating a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2024
JÓHANNSSON A Prayer To The Dynamo
A Prayer to the Dynamo (2012) was commissioned by Matthew Patton of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s new music festival, who...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2024
JARRELL Orchestral Works
As on its previous album (BIS2482) devoted to the music of Michael Jarrell (b1958), BIS has paired two of his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 2 & 5 (Poschner)
Markus Poschner’s recording of the 1877 version of the Second Symphony features a new edition by the Bruckner scholar Paul...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024
BRUCKNER Symphony No 0 (Nelsons)
With a conclusively established dating of its composition to 1869 – between Nos 1 and 2 – Bruckner’s first D...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Kreutzer Sonata (Nemanja Radulović)
Nemanja Radulović takes complete control of every aspect of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, playing the solo part while leading his own...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
CPE BACH Hamburg Symphonies Wq 182 (Janiczek)
For inspired craziness no 18th-century composer, surely, can touch Emanuel Bach. When Baron van Swieten, of Haydn Creation fame, commissioned...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2024
SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No 1 (Bruno Philippe)
You know when every aspect of an album just sings? Well, this is one of those, and not only because...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
Lowell Liebermann Plays Piano Music of Theodor Kirchner
Lowell Liebermann’s prowess at the keyboard usually takes a back seat to his prominence as a composer. He made up...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
GLASS 'Signature' (Angèle Dubeau)
Philip Glass’s music was the first to be featured in the series of ‘portrait’ albums by violinist Angèle Dubeau and...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2024
BOYCE The Bird is an Alphabet
For the American composer Douglas Boyce, writing music is an act of philosophising. Each of the recent vocal-chamber works gathered...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2024
ADLER Unholy Sonnets
While not an ardent fan of the art song medium, I have to say that this new Navona album of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
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