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TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto BRUCH Scottish Fantasy

Ning Feng’s account of the Tchaikovsky is notably elegant. The fast, high passages sound wonderfully clear and pure, and the...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2014

BRITTEN Symphony for Cello and Orchestra. Sonata for Cello and Piano

We are not lacking top-drawer versions of these two probing, Rostropovich-inspired masterpieces, not least from the great cellist himself on...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2014

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2

Those who admire the intelligent, direct and stylishly lean virtuosity that Maurizio Pollini has long brought to Brahms’s Second Concerto...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2014

BEPPE Remote Galaxy

The composer formerly known as Fred Jonny Berg here releases his second collaboration with the Philharmonia, Ashkenazy and flautist Emily...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2014

BAX Symphony in F

It is often the case that the first symphonic essay of any aspiring composer tends to be long. Nevertheless, Bax’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2014

AHO Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra. Symphony No 15

This recording of Aho’s 15th, and I think still latest, Symphony has been a while coming – the concert premiere,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2014

TAVENER The Veil of the Temple

Signum has done us a great service in making available this recording of the reduced version of The Veil of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2014

Terezín: Refuge in Music

Awareness of the Terezín composers over the last 25 years reaches a culmination in this documentary DVD companion to the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014

SHEPPARD Sacred choral music

Perhaps the most striking feature of this recording from the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, is the way in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2014

SCHUBERT Winterreise

The affecting, chilling bleakness of ‘Gute Nacht’ immediately suggests that this is going to be a Winterreise of vision and...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014

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