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RECORDING REVIEW | Shostakovich & Martinů | Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Poltéra & Varga | "...the stellar performance of the Martinů concerto alone makes this disc commendable"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Rihm & Bruckner | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Gatti | RAH, London | "Gatti’s care for every note, for all its good intentions, felt strained at times and overdone"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Grieg, Vaughan Williams, etc. | Hwang & Matthews | "The aesthetics of Hwang’s playing, then, is shaped by her unwillingness to compromise both care for each note and fidelity to the score for dramatic effects"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Brahms & Segerstam | Turku Philharmonic Orchestra/Takizawa & Segerstam | "...a refreshing disc, although I am a tad bit disappointed that I did not experience the groundbreaking eccentricity that was looming in expectation"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Shostakovich | USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky | "any reading would find it difficult to top the upfront and ambitious execution of the Third Symphony"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Wagner | Bulgakova & Hoteev | "...the performances are satisfying, with the Wesendonck Sonata being exemplary"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Shostakovich | Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Gimeno | "For a work of youthful spirit as well as public acknowledgement of the avant-garde of the time, Gimeno’s account is rather timid and distanced..."

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RECORDING REVIEW | Bruckner | Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Gimeno | "Never missing is a sense of Apollonian containment"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Wuorinen | Boston Symphony Orchestra/Serkin & Levine | "...the playing is clean and alert, with good tempo judgement"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Mozart | Youn | "The sheer artistic integrity gives birth to a unique form of covert intensity ... ‘poetic’ may be the best word to describe this phenomenon"