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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

GÁL Symphony No 2 SCHUMANN Symphony No 4

This is the third of a projected series of four discs setting the symphonies of Schumann alongside those of Hans...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2013

d'ERLANGER Concerto Symphonique

German father, American mother, born in Paris, naturalised British (he lived most of his life in London), Baron Frédéric d’Erlanger...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2013

SCHUMANN; DVOŘÁK Piano Concertos

This is the second disc of this unlikely coupling to come my way in the past two years. Martin Helmchen...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2013

MOZART Symphony No 39 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4

Here’s another irresistible helping of Sir Georg Solti and his dazzling Chicagoans from the BBC archives, this time a colour...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2013

CASELLA Italia. Sinfonia (Symphony No 3)

Good news: Vol 3 in Chandos’s Casella series effortlessly maintains the exalted artistic and technical standards of both its predecessors...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2013

BRITTEN Violin Concerto

Britten’s own recording of his Violin Concerto with Mark Lubotsky towers over the field but that has not stopped others...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2013

BRAHMS Symphony No 1

‘Johannes Brahms 1874-1951’ reads the back cover, suggesting a sloppiness that, happily, is not reflected either in the cultured response...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2013

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 7

It has long struck me that Beethoven’s Fourth and Seventh Symphonies make an ideal coupling. Though they cross the traditional...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2013

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