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Beethoven Symphonies from Ádám Fischer and the Danish Chamber Orchestra
19th Jul 2019
Ádám Fischer conducts the Danish Chamber Orchestra in frequently thrilling, occasionally controversial, but always fascinating performances of Beethoven's symphonies.
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The final instalment of Andrew Manze's Vaughan Williams cycle with the Liverpool Philharmonic
24th May 2019
Andrew Manze and the Liverpool Philharmonic round off their Vaughan Williams series with vivid accounts of the majestic seventh and pensive ninth symphonies.
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Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony
17th May 2019
Recorded live in concert in 2017, the Berliner Philharmoniker's first album with their new Chief Conductor augurs very well indeed for their new partnership.
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Les Siècles perform Mahler's symphonic poem, Titan
10th May 2019
François-Xavier Roth and his period-instrument orchestra perform Mahler's "tone poem in the form of a symphony in two parts and five movements", an early version of his First Symphony.
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Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts symphonies by Mieczysław Weinberg
3rd May 2019
For her first recording with Deutsche Grammophon, the Lithuanian conductor offers haunting accounts of two symphonies by the Polish-born Soviet composer, Mieczysław Weinberg.
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John Nelson on Berlioz
7th Mar 2019
Ahead of his performance and recording of the Grande Messe des Morts at St Paul's Cathedral tomorrow evening to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's death, the American conductor talks to Katherine about his fifty-year relationship with music which 'lit something up in me that's remained all my life'.
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Leila Josefowicz on Bernd Alois Zimmermann
5th Mar 2019
In the wake of her new recording of the Violin Concerto on Ondine with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the American-Canadian violinist tells Katherine about her 'crusade' to bring the German composer's music to a wider audience.
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Andris Nelsons continues his Shostakovich cycle with Symphonies 6 & 7
22nd Feb 2019
Andris Nelsons continues his Shostakovich series with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with thrillingly detailed accounts of the Sixth and Seventh symphonies.
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Paavo Järvi on Sibelius
4th Feb 2019
The Estonian conductor talks to Katherine about recording the first-ever complete set of Sibelius symphonies with a French orchestra during his tenure as Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris.
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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1-7
Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi
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Orchestral Works by George Antheil
4th Jan 2019
The BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds present the second volume in Chandos's survey of the orchestral works of American composer, George Antheil.
