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Review: Brahms – Symphonies No. 3 & 4 – Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano conducts the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg in Brahms' third and fourth symphonies.
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Review: Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Pablo Heras-Casado
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the RIAS Kammerchor and the Freiburger Barockorchester in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, played on period instruments.
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Review: Haydn – Complete Symphonies, Vol. 17 – Kammerorchester Basel, Antonini
Giovanni Antonini continues his Haydn 2032 series of the complete symphonies, this time with Nos. 13, 16 and 36, along with the first violin concerto.
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Review: Furtwängler – Symphony No. 2 – Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Neeme Järvi conducts the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in Wilhelm Furtwängler's Symphony No.2.
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Review: Sibelius – Symphony No. 5, Serenades, Swanwhite Suite – Tetzlaff, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Collon
Nicholas Collon conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius' fifth symphony, Serenades, and the Swanwhite Suite, with violinist Christian Tezlaff.
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Review: Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique, Ravel – La valse – Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä
Klaus Mäkelä leads Orchestre de Paris in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Ravel's La valse.
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Review: Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”) – Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahav Shani
Lahav Shani conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in Mendelssohn's third symphony ("Scottish).
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Review: Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 1, Symphonic Dances – Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London in Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 1 and Symphonic Dances.
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Review: Michael Daugherty – Blue Electra – Anne Akiko Meyers, Albany Symphony, David Alan Miller
The Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller perform works by Michael Daugherty, including a violin concerto with violinist Anne Akiko Meyers.
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Review: Bennett – Orchestral Works, Vol. 5 – John Wilson
John Wilson leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's Concerto for Orchestra, the Sonnets to Orpheus for cello and orchestra and Diversions.