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Abbado's fine new DG recording of the Second Symphony is quickly followed by another very satisfying version from Muti and the Philadelphia. In this Brahms symphony, at any rate, there are now at least three modern performances which can hold their head high in the company of classic...

MENDELSSOHN. Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. Gil Shaham (vn); Philharmonia Orches- tra / Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 0:) CD 427 6562G H (55 minutes: DDD).

Riccardo Chailly is an experienced Brucknerian, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra even more so. So there is every chance of this new recording holding its own in a generally very competitive field. The slow movement, for instance, can emerge in performance as merely bland rather than tragically...

At long last alleluias are in order. EMI have finally got round to reissuing on CD the finest— nay, the only wholly acceptable—account of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony on record. Quite why this terse, searching and exhilarating symphony has so eluded interpreters is difficult to establish;...