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SWR Classic releases Roger Norrington conducting Martinů’s Fifth & Sixth Symphonies.

Dec 7, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

Sir Roger and the Stuttgart Radio SO do well by Martinů’s final two Symphonies, respectively recorded in 2008 and 2003. (Part of a complete cycle, I wonder? Norrington was due to conduct the Fourth in Berlin in October last year,...

Berliner Philharmoniker – Tugan Sokhiev conducts Carnival Overture and selections from Swan Lake, and Bruno Delepelaire plays Lalo’s Cello Concerto. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Dec 3, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Saturday, December 3, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Returned from its recent tour with Kirill Petrenko, the Berliner Philharmoniker opened its latest DCH relay with Dvořák’s Carnival Overture, a zesty affair under Tugan Sokhiev,...

Krystian Zimerman records Piano Works by Karol Szymanowski for Deutsche Grammophon.

Nov 29, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

Four of the Opus One Preludes open this seventy-minute recital, elusive yet richly romantic music, played with engaging warmth by Krystian Zimerman, who goes on to allure with the Opus 34 Masques, twentieth-century impressionism and volatility, given with sensitivity...

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Martyn Brabbins conducts Sibelius’s Tapiola & Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony; Elizabeth Llewellyn sings Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Nov 24, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Letter from Sibelius to VW dated August 22, 1952 Thursday, November 24, 2022 City Halls, Glasgow The elemental Tapiola (Tapio, forest god), 1926, and the mostly serene if transporting Fifth Symphony made for a telling contrast, Vaughan Williams dedicating the Fifth to...

WDR Sinfonieorchester – Dima Slobodeniouk premieres Liszt-Glanert and conducts Schumann’s Fourth Symphony; Martin Helmchen plays Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. Live webcast.

Nov 22, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Saturday, November 19, 2022 Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga The ‘Prussian Apollo’, Prince Louis Ferdinand was born this past weekend two-hundred-and-fifty years ago – November 18, 1772. In Friedrichsfelde Castle near...

Jakub Hrůša & Bamberger Symphoniker record Symphonies by Brahms (No.2) & Dvořák (No.7) for Tudor.

Nov 20, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

This release completes Jakub Hrůša’s Bamberg survey of Brahms’s Four Symphonies and the final four of Dvořák (Six to Nine), and coincidentally couples what would probably be my choice of one work each from the respective cycles. (Tough call though.) In the...