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NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 6

Sakari Oramo’s cycle of Nielsen symphonies roars to its conclusion with an account of the Second, The Four Temperaments, irresistibly...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2015

WRIGHT Four String Quartets

The music of Christopher Wright (b1954) has just recently been making headway in terms of recording, not least his combative...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2015

DONIZETTI Les martyrs

The knotty gestation of Les martyrs, explained in impressive and patient detail in Opera Rara’s characteristically excellent documentation for this...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 9

How many Ninths do we really need? From Bruno Walter to Bruno Maderna (BBC, 8/06 – nla) and beyond, the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015

Alice Coote: L'heure exquise

Five of Poulenc's songs are included in Alice Coote’s recital, L’heure exquise. She begins with ‘Les chemins de l’amour’ and...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2015

NIELSEN Songs for Choir

While Sibelius long held a deluded idea of himself as a ‘man of the people’, Nielsen actually was one –...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015

HANDEL L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

L’Allegro is just the work for those who doubt that the periwigged monument of Victorian imagination was one of the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 4

In a pre-concert interview around the time of this recording in June 2014, Elizabeth Watts discussed how her academic background...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015

C & R SCHUMANN Works for Violin, Viola and Piano

Programmes of Robert and Clara Schumann are becoming increasingly popular these days, and Nurit Stark and Cédric Pescia, Israeli and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2015

LAWES The Royal Consort

William Lawes’s 10 Royal Consort sets (or suites) were probably composed for the Caroline court during the 1630s. Unswerving royalist...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015

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