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MOSZKOWSKI Orchestral music Vol 3 (Hobson)

André Previn once said to me that ‘just because a composer likes to write a sound that ravishes the ear...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022

MARTINAITIS Seasons and Serenades - Works For String Orchestra

Lithuania’s senior composers are little heard outside their Baltic environs – not least Algirdas Martinaitis (b1950), whose music has not...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2022

ĶENIÑŠ Symphonies Nos 5 & 8. Aria (Poga)

After his Fourth and Sixth Symphonies from Ondine and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, here we have the Fifth and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022

ENESCU Violin Concerto. Phantasy For Piano & Orchestra (Ruzicka)

Here we have two fascinating early works by Enescu not previously recorded. Enescu was already a graduate of the Vienna...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2022

ELIASSON Symphonies Nos 3 & 4. Trombone Concerto (Christian Lindberg)

Rather like Per Nørgård in Denmark, Anders Eliasson spent much of his career in Sweden pursuing and researching a compositional...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022

DOHNÁNYI Concertos; Variations on a Nursery Song

Spoiler alert. If you don’t know the opening three or four minutes of Variations on a Nursery Theme, skip this...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022

BRIAN Symphonies Nos 3 & 17 (Pope)

There is a good case for considering Havergal Brian’s Third Symphony (1931 32) his first symphonic masterpiece. Beautifully balanced, dramatic...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022

BRAHMS; SCHUMANN 'Lyrical Echoes'

This is the second volume in a series exploring, as Alexander Shelley puts it, ‘the closely intertwined personal and artistic...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Furtwängler)

Wilhelm Furtwängler’s way with Beethoven’s Choral Symphony approximates a shared ritual. It is quite literally spellbinding, whether in the slowly...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2022

AUCOIN 'Orphic Moments'

Not long turned 30, Massachusetts-born composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin is easily (perhaps too easily) pigeonholed as the Thomas Adès of his...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2022

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