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VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Symphonies nos 5 & 7

Whoever had the inspired notion to rescue from the vaults these valuable Vaughan Williams performances under the characteristically humane and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013

TAYLOR Symphony No 2. Viola Concerto

With Robert Simpson as his principal mentor, Matthew Taylor invariably has a firm and often original control of structure. He...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 1 & 6

A handy souvenir for anyone attending Boreyko’s concerts in Stuttgart’s Beethovensaal during 2011, this latest instalment is short on distinguishing...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2013

SCHUMANN Violin Concertos

If asked to sum up the impact of Schumann’s late concertante works for solo strings and orchestra, I would say...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2013

SCHUBERT Symphony No 6

Distance doesn’t lend enchantment to the woodwind, pale rather than pungent in a symphony where they play a crucial role....

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2013

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. The Isle of the Dead

Slatkin’s recordings of the Second and Third (7/13) symphonies signalled his sure instinct for the Rachmaninov idiom together with the...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013

PROKOFIEV Complete Works for Violin

Chandos steals a march on its rivals by presenting Prokofiev’s ‘Complete Works for Violin’ in a neat two-disc package. However...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2013

PENDERECKI Piano Concerto 'Resurrection'

When Penderecki’s Piano Concerto was heard at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 2002 it was widely condemned as ‘stale’ and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2013

PANUFNIK Symphony no 9, 'Sinfonia di Speranza'

This latest instalment in CPO’s fascinating Panufnik survey might not contain the composer’s most immediately striking works but they are...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2013

NIKODIJEVIC dark/rooms

Any composer who numbers Popov’s manic First Symphony and Orff’s apocalyptic oratorio De temporum fine commedia among his favourite works...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2013

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