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GUNNING Symphony No 5. String Quartet No 1
‘Discovery’ is an appropriate CD label for this pair of works by Christopher Gunning. The composer tells us in the...
Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 09/2013
GRIEG Complete Symphonic Works Vol III
The first two discs in this ‘Complete Symphonic Works’ series (10/11, 11/11) were outstanding. This third is wholly exceptional. The...
Reviewed in issue 09/2013
FELDMAN Violin and Orchestra
You suspect, in the great scheme of music, orchestral musicians would rather play nearly anything else than a 50-minute piece...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2013
FALLA Noches en los jardines de España FRANCK Symphonic Variations
Throughout her long and distinguished, if insufficiently acknowledged career, Valerie Tryon has remained true to her own lights. Virtuoso teasers...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013
ELGAR Symphony No 2
No doubt about it, Sakari Oramo is an Elgarian of strong instinct, and this abundantly characterful, cannily paced and deeply...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2013
DUBOIS Piano Concerto No 2. Suite for Piano and String Orchestra
The booklet for this, the 60th volume of Hyperion’s landmark series, quotes an entry from Dubois’s diary just two years...
Reviewed in issue 09/2013
DEBUSSY Première Suite d'Orchestre. La Mer
Many a disc of Debussy’s La mer has popped through the letterbox over the past few years but this version...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 09/2013
BRUCKNER Symphony No 7
Stunned silence greets the conclusion of Christian Thielemann’s inaugural concert as principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. With the closing...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2013
BRUCKNER Symphony No 5
Should concert DVDs attempt to faithfully represent the live experience? Or should directors exploit film as a medium to illustrate...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2013
KORNGOLD Violin Concerto Op 25 BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1
An impressive, distinctive performance of the Bruch, with Arabella Steinbacher combining confident, easy virtuosity with concern to find the right...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 09/2013
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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