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English Music for Strings: Britten, Bliss, Bridge, Berkeley

John Wilson’s reverence for Sir John Barbirolli’s iconic disc of ‘English String Music’ with the now reborn Sinfonia of London...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2021

VLADIGEROV Orchestral Works Vol 1

Hardly a prophet without honour in his own country, Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1979) remains little heard outside Bulgaria, despite building a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2021

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Job. Songs of Travel (Elder)

It’s always a treat to encounter a really fine performance of Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel in their alternative orchestral...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2021

VASKS Viatore. Distant Light. Voices

The masks and social distancing evident from the booklet photos tell you this recording was made since March even before...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2021

SCHMITT La Tragédie de Salomé

Following on from her well-regarded recording of Schmitt’s Antoine et Cléopâtre and Le palais hanté (Naxos 11/15), JoAnn Falletta now...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021

PETTERSSON Symphony No 12 'The Dead in the Square'

Each instalment of Christian Lindberg’s Pettersson survey has been much anticipated and the release of Pettersson’s sole choral symphony (and,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

HAYDN Symphonies Vol 9 - L'Addio

Haydn’s early musical instance of ‘industrial action’ may have made the Farewell (No 45, 1772) one of the most famous...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2021

HAYDN Paris Symphonies (Boyd)

The documentation makes no reference to these being live recordings but the atmosphere of the recorded sound gives a very...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2021

GOLDMARK Symphonic Poems, Vol 2 (Bollon)

‘The mighty king of dissonance’: that, bizarrely enough, is how the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick described Karl Goldmark, and when...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021

GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F (Kevin Cole)

The present recording of Gershwin’s Concerto in F is the first to use the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

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