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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending. Violin Concerto

The comparative rarity here is the Violin Concerto, which shows Vaughan Williams toying with fashionable 1920s neo-classicism. His reference point...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto. Chamber Works

Daniel Müller-Schott’s discography already includes many peaks of the cello repertoire, so the addition of the Dvořák Concerto fills a...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015

DUKAS Symphony in C. The Sorcerers Apprentice. La Péri

It’s been a good few years since I last encountered a brand-new recording of Paul Dukas’s big-hearted and meatily argued...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015

DICKINSON Violin, Piano and Organ Concertos. Merseyside Echoes

Composer, pianist and author: Peter Dickinson has enjoyed a long and successful career in all three fields and it is...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015

CONNESSON Violin Concerto. Lucifer

Listen blind and you’d never guess this was music by a Frenchman operating in the post-Boulez era, the best clues...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2015

JACOB; WILLIAMSON; CARWITHEN Piano Concertos

Mark Bebbington is fast becoming the Iris Loveridge de nos jours with his championship of neglected British piano music. There...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015

BRUN Piano Concerto. Divertimento for Piano and Strings

We have reached Vol 5 in Guild’s extensive survey devoted to the Swiss composer Fritz Brun (1878-1959). Completed in May...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 5

First impressions are of unclouded Brucknerian vistas, a noble, unforced unfolding with superb playing from the orchestra, well matched tempi...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 1. Cello Concerto BRITTEN Sinfonietta

First off, a grateful nod to the EuroArts production team for abjuring from the bleeding chunk of music which usually...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015

BRAY At the Speed of Stillness. Caught in Treetops

She may only have been composing in earnest for a decade but Charlotte Bray (b1982) is now at the forefront...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015

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