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POULENC Organ Concerto. SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 3

There are those of us who are in seventh heaven when a new disc of Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony drops through...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

I find myself rather more favourably disposed to this second instalment of Alan Gilbert’s Nielsen cycle than I was to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2014

MÜLLER Clarinet Concertos

Iwan Müller was born in Tallinn, Estonia, 30 years after Mozart. In his youth he was a clarinet virtuoso in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2014

NIELSEN; MOZART Clarinet Concertos

Judge the tenor of Nielsen’s Concerto with the first cadenza (4'37") in the opening movement played by Ib Erikson (1954)...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2014

JANÁČEK Sinfonietta. Capriccio. The Cunning Little Vixen Suite

As our leading Janáček scholar, John Tyrrell, points out in his valuable notes to this issue, a clue to the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2014

GRIME Clarinet Concerto. Night Songs. Virga.

In the six years since she first came to prominence, Helen Grime has gone on to write several further works...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2014

GRIEG Symphony in C. Piano Concerto

‘Must never be performed’ is an obvious red rag to any musical bull and although Grieg’s youthful C minor Symphony...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8

Good as it is in part, José Serebrier’s 2014 Bournemouth Symphony Dvořák Eighth can’t compare with the last version I...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014

DEBUSSY La Mer. Images. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra, which has been associated most recently on disc with its series of Rachmaninov symphonies coupled with...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014

DALLAPICCOLA Works for Orchestra

As Christoph Schlüren points out in his informative booklet-note, orchestral music occupies a limited place within Dallapiccola’s output – making...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2014

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