Recordings

Alban Berg Ensemble Wien
Alban Berg Ensemble Wien [Deutsche Grammophon]
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It may have started out as a centenary tribute to the Society for Private Musical Performances over which Schoenberg presided during 1918-22, but the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien has now...
Liszt - Années De Pèlerinage
Liszt’s Years of Pilgrimage – Suzana Bartal (Naïve)
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“You [in Geneva] are in the best possible position to write great things: take advantage of the fact. Travel around Switzerland and Italy on foot, that is the only way...
Jascha Horenstein - Reference Recordings
Jascha Horenstein – Reference Recordings [Profil]
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Mahler’s Third symphony was not heard in England until half a century after its composition when it was broadcast by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult on...
Bruckner Symphony No. 8 In C Minor - Wab 108 (Edition Haas)
Bruckner’s Symphony No.8 – Vienna Philharmonic/Christian Thielemann [Sony Classical]
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Here begins Sony Classical’s presentation of Bruckner’s Symphonies with Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic. Previously this conductor has recorded No.8 with Staatskapelle Dresden. The timings are similar to those...
Britten - Peter Grimes [Stuart Skelton Erin Wall Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choirs Edward Gardner] [Chandos CHSA 5250(2)]
Peter Grimes in Norway – Stuart Skelton, Erin Wall, Roderick Williams, Susan Bickley, Bergen Philharmonic conducted by Edward Gardner [Chandos]
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Chandos’s recording of Britten’s ground-breaking opera never lets up. Stuart Skelton mines the role of George Crabbe’s holy-fool fisherman with unerring breadth and imagination; and Edward Gardner is in total...
Haydn String Quartets Op 33 (Doric String Quartet)
Doric Quartet records Haydn’s Opus 33 [Chandos]
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The Doric Quartet takes an individual approach to shaping Haydn’s music.  The players’ ability to express a phrase meaningfully and then progress to the next musical idea without interrupting the...
Heinz Holliger conducts Schubert 4 & 6 [Sony Classical]
Heinz Holliger conducts Schubert 4 & 6 [Sony Classical]
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It is always a pleasure to encounter Heinz Holliger’s refreshing approach to Schubert’s Symphonies.  He performs these works in an unaffected way, respecting the tempo markings and within them shaping...
Martyn Brabbins conducts Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony
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Much taken with this latest release in Martyn Brabbins’s Hyperion/BBCSO Vaughan Williams Symphony series I was conscious that it speaks with a quiet voice, unsensational to a fault. Need that...
Paavo Järvi records Franz Schmidt’s Four Symphonies for Deutsche Grammophon
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Paavo Järvi has emerged among the most assiduous recording artists of today, threatening to outdo his father in symphonic cycles (witness his Beethoven, Brahms, Nielsen, and Sibelius for RCA). Almost...
The Classical Piano Concerto – Howard Shelley records Johann Baptist Cramer for Hyperion
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This is a welcome continuation of Howard Shelley’s exploration of Cramer’s Piano Concertos. Shelley’s excellent recording of Nos.4 & 5 showed the composer at the height of his powers, Acclaimed...
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