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New Music Show

Following releases on Signum, the London Sinfonietta continues its in-house label with a disc of recent works – five of...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 02/2013

American Mavericks

I doubt whether Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell and Edgard Varèse thought of themselves as ‘maverick’ any more than bananas taste...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 02/2013

WEINBERG Symphony No 19 'Bright May'. The Banners of Peace

Naxos is boldly stepping into the breach vacated by Chandos to give us the few remaining Weinberg symphonies yet to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2013

TURNAGE Orchestral Works Vol 3

The LPO label’s third disc of Mark-Anthony Turnage (the orchestra’s Composer in Residence from 2005 to 2010) may have arrived...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 02/2013

TELEMANN Complete Violin Concertos Volume 5

For the fifth volume of Telemann’s violin concertos, Elizabeth Wallfisch uses a different orchestra from the one on Vol 4...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 02/2013

STRAVINSKY The Firebird. The Rite of Spring

First a word about Naïve’s superlative presentation, a hard-covered story-book with attractive fantastical illustrations that resemble lino cuts and with...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2013

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 'Leningrad'

Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony has, notoriously, suffered wild swings of opinion, from adulation at the time of its performance, the Siege...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2013

RICHTER The Four Seasons: Recomposed

Composers throughout history have revamped and updated earlier masterpieces in their own image. Here we have Max Richter’s recomposed version...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2013

REGER Violin Concerto Op 101

At the beginning of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, the title-character torments Eurydice by threatening to play his tedious, hour-plus...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2013

MOZART Symphonies Vol 9

Captivated by clarinets he had heard in Mannheim in 1777 en route to Paris, Mozart used them for the first...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2013

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