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Maurizio Pollini plays Chopin
12th Dec 2011
In the run-up to the great Italian pianist’s 70th birthday, Testament release a very early recording of the Études Opp. 10 & 25 (recorded when Pollini was just 18), and Deutsche Grammophon issue his complete Chopin recordings from 1972 to 2008.
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Bruckner and Mahler from Haitink and Pappano
14th Nov 2011
Haitink conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, whilst Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia tackle Mahler’s Sixth in their first-ever recording of the composer’s music together.
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Gergiev and the LSO conclude their Mahler cycle
5th Sep 2011
The Russian conductor’s painstaking attention to tiny issues of orchestral balance and uncharacteristic willingness to allow the music breathing-space make for a tremendously moving Ninth Symphony.
