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SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

Geraint Lewis, in his recent Gramophone Collection on Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony, quoted Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s views on the much-maligned composer’s orchestration...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2012

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

David Zinman and his expert band give predictably athletic, tightly disciplined performances of two contrasting early Schubert symphonies: the blithe,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2012

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5; Concert Overtures

Hackle-raising stuff from Michi Gaigg. She offers resourceful thinking about the Fifth Symphony – or distasteful re-thinking that destroys a...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2012

RUDERS Symphony No 3. Offred Suite. Tundra

Poul Ruders’s Third Symphony stands in the long line of Koussevitzky Foundation commissions that gave us Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2012

POHJOLA Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

A former avant-gardist, Seppo Pohjola (b1965) has transitioned to the mainstream, creating an eclectic and quirky style. On the basis...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012

MONTSALVATGE Partita 1958. Calidoscopi simfònic, Op 61. Simfonia de Rèquiem

The Canciones negras (1946, orch 1949) comprise the earliest work on Chandos’s new release honouring Xavier Montsalvatge’s largely unhonoured centenary...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012

LISZT The Sound of Weimar Vol 4 & 5

Of the many interesting factors that strike home after listening to these fascinating CDs, the close proximity, sound-wise, between Liszt...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2012

KABALEVSKY Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra

‘The poor man’s Prokofiev’ was one notorious dismissal of Kabalevsky, unfair as well as unkind. In later life he was...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/2012

HAYDN Symphonies

Do you remember the news story a couple of months ago in which a well-meaning parishioner decided to ‘restore’ a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2012

GRUBER Busking SCHWERTSIK Divertimento Macchiato

The two composers on this disc belong to what has been called (with tongue in cheek, I suspect) the ‘Third...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2012

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