symphonies

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His first major recording boasted startlingly propulsive performances of Beethoven’s Fifth and Seventh Symphonies, with the uproarious Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, recorded 20 years ago this month.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

And so Tchaikovsky’s Fifth and Sixth Symphonies emerged more fully characterized than did the Fourth, though all were delivered with considerable oomph.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

The Leadmill gig will coincide with the release of the band's record, Drastic Symphonies, on 19 May.

From BBC • May 3, 2023

He and the Philadelphia Orchestra released a Grammy Award-winning recording of her First and Third Symphonies last year.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

“I would like,” said I, tying a knot at my ankle, “to play violin in an orchestra. Symphonies of Arne and Sammartini.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson