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National Symphony Orchestra/ Gianandrea Noseda NSO NSO0022 75:12 mins Mahler’s mad-cap Seventh is the toughest of his symphonies to conceptualise and to execute. Lacking any explicit programme, two of

Marc-André Hamelin (piano) Hyperion CDA67077 The People United has been recorded regularly over its 50 years, from Ursula Oppens in 1978 to a recent, recommendable version by the young Bulgarian piani

Hailing from Canada’s West Coast, Steven Dann has served as principal viola with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Vancouver and Toronto symphony orchestras, as

Andrey Gugnin (piano) Hyperion CDA684712 83 mins This album of Russian ballet transcriptions sparkles like a glass bauble hanging amidst the fairy lights. Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky wrote so colourful

Kahchun Wong remembers vividly the moment it happened. ‘With an orchestra, you know it when it clicks, when there is a chemistry,’ he recalls. ‘I went to the first rehearsal without any expectation. I

Kammerorchester Basel/Giovanni Antonini Alpha ALPHA1092 76:29 mins The most familiar of the symphonies here, if only because it has a nickname, is No. 55, whose ‘Schoolmaster’ title arises out of the