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Boult’s Elgar — The Forgotten Recordings (SOMM) ★★★★☆ 🎧 Amazon There are days when solely Elgar will do. When the skies are low and the politics grim, a wash of Elgarian orchestral color relieves existential gloom...

Fatma Mentioned: Lieder (Warner Classics) ★★★★★ 🎧 Apple | Spotify | Amazon The Egyptian soprano, based mostly in London and Berlin, had a mixture of Western and Arabic classical songs on her debut album, illustrating musical...

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (Stay) (BR Klassik) ★★★★★ 🎧 Apple | Spotify | Amazon The seventh was the least understood of Mahler’s symphonies and the final to get recorded. Bruno Walter, Mahler’s closest apostle, by no...

Reynaldo Hahn: Piano Quintet, Songs, Piano Quartet (Chandos)Hans Gál: Music for Orchestra (CPO) ★★★☆☆/★★★☆☆ 🎧 Spotify | Spotify | In case you are about to step right into a heat tub, put one in every of...

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies 6 and 9 (Philharmonia Information) ★★★★☆ 🎧 Spotify | Direct 4 months in the past, I wrote about one of many least satisfying Shostakovich information I've ever heard, a efficiency the place the conductor, a hyped...

Mahler Pioneers (Somm)Strauss/Mahler: Symphony 4, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Adagietto from Symphony No 5, Tod und Verklarung (Mengelberg Society) ★★★★☆/★★★★☆ 🎧 Spotify | Presto Music The loss of life of composer Alexander Goehr final August reminded...

Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 13 (Naxos)Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica; Chopin Variations; Sonatina prima; Sonatina seconda; Prelude and Fugue BMV 532 & 565 (Bach, transcribed Busoni) (Chandos)Busoni: Doktor Faust (Naxos) ★★★☆☆/★★★★☆/★★★☆☆ 🎧 Spotify | Spotify | Spotify What’s...

Unplayed Tales… in 40 Fingers (Hyperion) ★★★☆☆ 🎧 Apple | Spotify | Amazon German composers don’t know the way to have enjoyable. Assume no additional than Mozart’s Musical Joke, or Beethoven’s fat-shaming of the violinist Schuppanzigh....