Album Reviews
In Short – 5 Albums Worth Your Listen – July 2025
Five new classical music albums worth checking out.
Symphony
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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: 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: 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: Brahms – Complete Symphonies – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in his second recording of the complete Brahms symphonies.
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Review: Mozart – Haffner-Akademie – Anna Prohaska, Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi
Mozart's opera arias and the Haffner symphony, performed by Soprano Anna Prohaska with Ensemble Resonanz under Riccardo Minasi.
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Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 5 – Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
Paavo Järvi leads the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in Mahler's symphony No. 5, the first release of a new Mahler cycle.