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SIBELIUS Symphony No 2

Nothing gave me greater pleasure when listening to these three CDs than Gerald English’s performance of the Britten Serenade, his...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2013

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

Osmo Vänskä’s new Sibelius cycle continues with the First and Fourth, a pairing he evidently likes, as that is how...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2013

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10

You expect quality from this source – and you get it here, in abundance. But words like ‘bloom’ and ‘beauty’...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2013

RIHM Symphony "Nähe fern"

The organisers of the Lucerne Festival and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra had the idea to mark their 2011 12 season...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2013

MOZART Clarinet Concerto

Mozart’s late clarinet masterpieces for Anton Stadler, the Concerto especially, have acquired autumnal, even valedictory associations. Yet those are not...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2013

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Chailly)

The Fourth is a neo-classical symphony. So observes Riccardo Chailly in an accompanying feature which, unusually, reflects faithfully in words...

Reviewed by Quantrill in issue: 08/2013

JANÁČEK Sinfonietta. Taras Bulba

A superb programme – and not only because it represents, in effect, a useful gathering of Janáček’s mature orchestral oeuvre....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2013

GOUVY Symphony No 4

As an admitted non-specialist in the works of Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 98), I am perhaps just the sort of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2013

GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue. Promenade

Faced with the plethora of recordings of Rhapsody in Blue, I increasingly return to the original jazz-band scoring made by...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 08/2013

GARDNER Hallelujah. Never..Never..Never... Lament

Listening to the music of Stephen Gardner prompted an inevitable comparison with the late Steve Martland, of whom Gardner (b1958)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2013

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