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PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

As Marin Alsop has remarked, Prokofiev consistently bucked prevailing trends, whether political, musical or inter-personal, so it is appropriate that...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014

PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet

As I write, Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are embarking on their fifth European tour. Their relationship has...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014

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

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