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COUPERIN Concerts Royaux
Couperin’s four Concerts royaux – each a suite of about half a dozen devilishly attractive instrumental movements, mostly dances –...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024
CHAUSSON Concert in D major LEKEU Violin Sonata
How to do written justice to the delights here in hand? Artists-wise, this is a first-ever solo album from Quatuor...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
BRAHMS Complete Piano Quartets
This recording of Brahms’s piano quartets featuring the great Hungarian cellist Miklós Perényi, now in his 70s, and a trio...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
BAKER The Tyranny of Fun
Good things come to those who wait, so the saying goes, and in Richard Baker’s case, it’s been a particularly...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
BAERMANN Clarinet Quintets
Mozart had Anton Stadler and Brahms had Richard Mühlfeld – clarinettists who inspired late masterpieces for their instrument. Heinrich Joseph...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies (Järvi)
These days we no longer need be defensive about the Reformation, trashed by Mendelssohn himself, or the symphony-cantata Lobgesang, once...
Reviewed in issue 05/2024
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate
Which is the most important: the journey or its destination? For Gidon Kremer, whose professional career has spanned over half...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
STRAUSS Josephslegende (Bollon)
Josephslegende, the first of Strauss’s two ballets, was composed to a scenario by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Anglo-German count...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2024
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8 (Haitink)
The obvious question is why it has taken more than 17 years for Haitink’s second recording of Shostakovich’s wartime colossus...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2024
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain (Pappano)
Early in his tenure as music director of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano made some very...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2024
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 3 (Noseda)
This is the third and best release in the ongoing Prokofiev symphony cycle from the LSO and its principal guest...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024
NIELSEN Flute Concerto. Symphony No 3. Pan and Syrinx (Gardner)
A near-perfect combo of works spanning the length and breadth of Carl Nielsen’s life’s work. The tone poem Pan and...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024
HAYDN Symphonies Vols 28-31 (Klumpp)
Like a sprinter lurching forwards to breast the tape, Johannes Klumpp announces that last spring he recorded the remaining symphonies...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
FALLA El Retablo de Maese Pedro; STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite (Heras-Casado)
The best music effects a kind of time travel on the ear. Turn to the slow movement of the Harpsichord...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2024
DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 7 & 8 (Inkinen)
Pietari Inkinen has been building an impressive career without the intense media scrutiny accorded some of his Finnish colleagues. While...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024
DELIUS Hassan – Complete incidental music (Phillips)
Delius lovers will already cherish the Intermezzo and Serenade from Hassan as extracted and edited by Thomas Beecham for use...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024
BRITTEN Violin Concerto (Isabelle Faust)
Hot on the heels of Baiba Skride’s exhilarating account of Britten’s Violin Concerto comes this one from Isabelle Faust in...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024
BERNSTEIN Serenade WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No 1 (James Ehnes)
I’ve always admired the modesty and truthfulness of James Ehnes as a player – and you can hear that modesty...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2, 7 & 9 (Noseda)
With these two albums, Gianandrea Noseda and the NSO of Washington DC conclude their Beethoven symphony cycle, and I’m left...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
BARTÓK The Wooden Prince. Divertimento. Romanian Folk Dances (Dausgaard)
Bartók was never fully content with The Wooden Prince and this final revision marks an end to his tinkering. It...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024
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