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This Sceptered Isle: Wood, Holst, Vaughan Williams and Elgar

One of the doyens of British light music, Yorkshire-born Haydn Wood (1882-1959) completed his Mannin Veen (Dear Isle of Man:...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2022

Symphonies of the Bach Family

Ever-enterprising in his exploration of all things Bach, Reinhard Goebel here alights on rarities from virtually every 18th-century member of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2022

Horizon 10

The initial, indeed overwhelming impression that this three-SACD collection of recent works played by (and many written for) the Royal...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

WINTERBERG Symphony No 1. Piano Concerto No 1 (Jonathan Powell)

Hans Winterberg (1901 91) was interned in Terezín by the Nazis. Unlike so many of his Jewish compatriots there, Winterberg...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Boult)

The veteran Adrian Boult at the helm of the orchestra he founded and painstakingly moulded into a top-class outfit –...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2022

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Järvi)

Paavo Järvi’s Tchaikovsky cycle with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra has come to an end. The last two symphonies, Nos 1...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 08/2022

STRAUSS Three Tone Poems (Welser-Möst)

Strauss’s ‘unfailing mastery’, Franz Welser-Möst tells us in a booklet essay, ‘quite often leaves me speechless and with a wide...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2022

STILL Summerland. Violin Suite (Zina Schiff)

This grab-bag programme of works by William Grant Still (1895-1978) spans most of the composer’s long and distinguished career. His...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 (Payare)

Sonically speaking, this streamed offering from San Diego is right up there with the best we have – yes, even...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 (Sokhiev)

There’s a great deal to admire here. Some individual new thinking, too. In some ways the Tenth is the most...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2022

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