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BUSH Small Pieces for Orchestra

Geoffrey Bush (1920 98) was still a schoolboy at Lancing College (and already taking informal lessons with the composer John...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2015

BRAHMS Piano Concertos

‘Tzimon Barto has had such a bad press, in this country at least, one is drawn instinctively to his side.’...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2015

MUHLY Cello Concerto BLOCH Schelomo

Zuill Bailey opens this triptych with a superb account of Bloch’s masterly Schelomo, concentrated and powerful, the soloist rhapsodising in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2015

BERLIOZ Harold en Italie. La mort de Cléopâtre

These two works are impressively recorded. The sound is particularly full and spacious; even listening on ordinary stereo equipment, Berlioz’s...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 1-5 (Complete)

On the evidence of this set, the husband-and-wife team of Mari Kodama and Kent Nagano enjoy a keen musical rapport....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2015

JS BACH Violin Concertos

Formed in 1981, Capella Savaria has the distinction not only of being the first period orchestra in Hungary, but perhaps...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2015

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

No tempo direction for the first movements of Nos 1 3 and 6. By tradition it could be a fast...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2015

Arditti Quartet: Pandora's Box

Rebecca Saunders’s Fletch (2012) is the work of a composer who knows very well, probably too well, how to turn...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

Sirena Recorder Quartet: Now and Then

In their music-making, ‘Sirena pass seamlessly between different eras and musical styles,’ suggests Matti Eden’s note with this CD. The...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2015

Ensemble Contraste: Midsummer Phantasy

The Ensemble Contraste here offer an illuminating sequence of pieces for piano quartet, with two of Purcell’s magnificent Fantazias arranged...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015

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