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LINDBERG Violin Concerto. Souvenir
Magnus Lindberg | Pekka Kuusisto | Tapiola Sinfonietta
Lindberg’s Violin Concerto of 2006 is the standout work in this latest instalment of his output from Ondine. It manages...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2013
WALLIN Manyworlds
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | Håkan Hardenberger | John Storgårds
Rolf Wallin’s trumpet concerto echoes the myth of the wounded Fisher King whose country degenerates into a wasteland. The ‘openness’...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2015
VENABLES The Song of the Severn
Carducci Quartet | Graham Lloyd | Roderick Williams
Back in May 2011 I derived much pleasure from a Somm anthology devoted to Ian Venables’s chamber music and now...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2015
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6. Violin Concerto
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Bernard Haitink | Isabelle Faust
Filmed at the 2015 Baden-Baden Easter Festival, this concert will mainly be of interest to followers of Isabelle Faust, whose...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016
STOCK Concertos
Alex Klein | Andrés Cárdenes | Boston Modern Orchestra Project | Gil Rose | Lisa Pegher
When the Pittsburgh composer David Stock died last year, aged 76, he was celebrated for the hearty contributions he had...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 08/2016
BUCK Sinfonietta Works
Athelas Sinfonietta, Copenhagen
Ole Buck (b 1945) is one of the only composers to have emerged from Denmark’s 20th-century search for ‘new simplicity’...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16
TISHCHENKO Symphony No 8. Concerto for Violin and Piano
Boris Tishchenko’s last numbered symphony, composed two years before his death in 2010 (a ninth was left unfinished), is a...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017
BEASER Guitar Concerto
Eliot Fisk | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The American composer Robert Beaser has the happy knack of writing orchestrally yet idiomatically for solo classical guitar. Just listen...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2017
MAKAN Dream Lightly
Boston Modern Orchestra Project | Gil Rose
I was rather taken with Keeril Makan’s hour-long sextet Letting Time Circle Through Us (New World, 12/17). Makan’s meditative take...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2019
DALE Requiem for my Mother
Rebecca Dale’s debut album arrives with much fanfare and publicity, with her new label proclaiming that she is ‘the first...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2018
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