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WENNÄKOSKI Soie. Hava. Amor Omnia Suite

Lotta Wennäkoski has made it easy for people who want to listen properly to her beautiful music. The three movements...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2015

SIBELIUS Pelléas et Mélisande. Jedermann. Two Serious Melodies

Pride of place on the third volume in Leif Segerstam’s Turku PO series for Naxos of lesser-known Sibelius goes to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2015

SIBELIUS Complete Symphonies

There is a sense here of how long and far Simon Rattle has journeyed with this music – one of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2015

RESPIGHI Metamorphosen. Belkis

Composers can be wayward judges of their own work. Respighi, it would seem, disliked his Metamorphoseon, commissioned in 1930 by...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2015

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3

Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony is the shared work in these otherwise dissimilar offerings. Valery Gergiev’s view is dark and stormy, his...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW2015

NIELSEN; SIBELIUS Violin Concertos

‘These are not good times for the [Sibelius] Violin Concerto,’ says conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste on a video at the probing...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2015

MAXWELL DAVIES Symphony No 10

Both these 10th symphonies acknowledge the time honoured four movement prototype, yet they could hardly be more different from each...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2015

LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2. Malédiction

The competition in the two concertos is fierce indeed, but not when they appear either side of the much less...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015

KALLIWODA Violin Concertinos & Overtures

Kalliwoda makes infrequent appearances on disc. I cannot find any mention in the Gramophone archives of these three overtures and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV Symphony No 1

Beggars can’t be choosers, and if you really must hear every Russian symphony you possibly can (yes, I’m in that...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2015

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