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Kerson Leong: Bis - Music for Violin and Piano
Hot on the heels of the astonishing Leonidas Kavakos and his unfashionable programme of violin encores (Decca, 6/16) comes a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016
SHORE Mythic Gardens. Ruin & Memory
He may be best known as having written scores for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, and those...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2017
DICKINSON Chamber and Instrumental Works
Kreutzer Quartet | Peter Sheppard Skærved | Roderick Chadwick
Arnold Whittall noted, in his Contemporary Composers feature on Peter Dickinson (10/18), that a recording of the Violin Sonata (1961)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020
BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem
This film dates from the middle of Thielemann’s brief period in charge of the Munich Philharmonic. It was first released...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2015
HENDERICKX Nostalgia
Boho Strings | David Ramael | Lin Chin Cheng | Roeland Henderickx | Valerie Debaele
The number of string ensembles active may be considerable but Boho Strings is second to none in terms of its...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2019
PUW Orchestral Works
BBC National Orchestra of Wales | David Cowley | Jac van Steen
Among Welsh composers of the younger generation, Guto Pryderi Puw (b1971) looks likely to achieve real prominence. This disc of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014
GUNNING Symphonies Nos 6 & 7. Night Voyage
Christopher Gunning (b1944) can number Alan Bush, Edmund Rubbra and Richard Rodney Bennett among his mentors. Since 2002 he has...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2014
QIN Orchestral Works
Gottfried Rabl | ORF Vienna Symphony Orchestra | Wei Ji | Weiwei Lan
From Debussy on, Western composers have sought inspiration from non-Western instruments. In the past couple of decades, this tendency has...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2018
Prokofiev Orchestral Works
Most Double Decca sets can be recommended without hesitation. Unfortunately, this one mixes recordings of decent vintage with a motley...
Reviewed in issue 9/1996
Orff Carmina burana
Muti's 1980 LP recording of Carmina burana was widely used as a hi-fi demonstration record when it first appeared; remarkable...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985
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