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BRUCKNER Symphony No 7

The emergence of the opening theme is certainly dream-like (that, we are told, is how Bruckner first heard it), the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2013

BLOCH Symphony in C sharp minor

The LSO play Bloch’s Symphony in C sharp minor marvellously and Dalia Atlas conducts it with understanding and conviction. She...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2013

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique LISZT Les Préludes

Daniel Barenboim’s time at the BBC Proms this summer was entirely taken up with Wagner’s Ring but four years ago...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013

ZEMLINKSY String Quartets Nos 3 & 4

Of all the composers of the experimental period in which he was writing, there were few who crystallised their musical...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2013

TCHAIKOVSKY; ELLINGTON Nutcracker Suites

Comparative listening doesn’t get much more fun than this. How right of the Duke to give equal billing to his...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013

SWEENEY Sonata for Cello and Piano. Tree o' Licht

He may have been overshadowed (at least south of the border) by younger contemporary James MacMillan, but William Sweeney (b1950)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2013

SOLER Violin Sonata No 2 BERG Piano Sonata

Josep Soler is a Catalan composer and teacher. Born in 1935, he grew up at a time of maximum musical...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2013

SCHUMANN Works for Clarinet, Viola and Piano

Once you get over the initial surprise of hearing Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Op 70, played on the viola instead...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013

SAARIAHO Chamber Works for Strings

Ondine here continues its invaluable Saariaho survey, this time with string chamber works from 1987 to 2010. The earliest of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2013

REBER Piano Trios Nos 3, 5 & 7

With the passing of time, Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807-80) has disappeared into the footnotes of music history, but his parents obviously...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013

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