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CONCERT REVIEW | Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov | St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra/Dmitriev & Donohoe | Cadogan Hall, London | "Dmitriev demonstrated that discipline and intensity of playing alone, without attempts for interpretation, was sufficient to generate a great performance"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Kokkonen | Väyrynen, Väyrynen, & Lehtola | "I am won over by Kokkonen’s towering originality and impact, especially in the powerful performance of the Requiem"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Enescu | BBC Philharmonic/Rozhdestvensky | "Under the baton of Rozhdestvensky, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra have a distinctively soviet contour, with astringent strings and vivid orchestral attacks"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Mozart & Bruckner | London Philharmonic Orchestra/Goode & Jurowski | RFH, London | "I was far from moved with Jurowski’s awkward handling of chorale- and Ländler-based ideas, the dichotomy of the sacred and profane so integral in Bruckner’s musical personality"