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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

Xavier de Maistre plays Mozart

The Concerto in F major, K459, played on the harp! Is it possible? The last of the six (Nos 14-19)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2013

MIKKELBORG Going to Pieces. Afterthoughts

No one could accuse Palle Mikkelborg of doing things by halves and, while the trumpeter admits to this being his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2013

WALTON Cello Concerto KHACHATURIAN Cello Concerto

This disc is issued as a memorial tribute to the great Danish cellist Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, who died earlier this...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013

HELBIG Pocket Symphonies

With a portfolio that includes collaborations with Torsten Rasch on the epic song-cycle Mein Herz brennt, industrial metal band Rammstein...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2013

HEININEN; NIELSEN Flute Concertos

This is an important disc, and not just for bringing to view the rushed, original version of the finale of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2013

ELGAR Cello Concerto

As formidably accomplished a reading of the Elgar as one would expect from such high-class performers. Jean-Guihen Queyras is a...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013

EICHBERG Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Søren Nils Eichberg is composer-in-residence with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the first to hold the post. That he is...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2013

DVOŘÁK Cello Concertos

Readers who, like me, grew up with the great Miloš Sádlo’s Supraphon recording of Dvořák’s early, unorchestrated A major Concerto...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013

DÖHLER Piano Concerto DREYSCHOCK Morceau de concert

Assiduous followers of Hyperion’s ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series may well know the name Alexander Dreyschock (1818-69), as he featured back...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2013

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