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NICKEL Concertos for Oboe

He may be best known through his sizeable output for television (dramas and documentaries) but Christopher Tyler Nickel (b1978) has...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2020

MOZART; SILVESTROV 'The Messenger'

As pairings go, Mozart and Silvestrov is pretty inspired. And within each half of Hélène Grimaud’s programme the works are...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2020

MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Bloch)

During a long association with founding conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus, the Orchestre National de Lille tended to be associated with Gallic...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2020

LEFANU The Crimson Bird. The Hidden Landscape

The works of Nicola LeFanu (b1947) have not been overlooked in terms of recording, albeit often appearing with those by...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2020

COATES Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Wilson)

Eric Coates had a distinct liking for fairy tales, and unless my ears deceive me his narrative writing sometimes assumes...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2020

CARAVASSILIS; CORIGLIANO; SIEGEL Guitar Concertos (Jakob Bangsø)

It’s always good to see younger guitarists continuing the tradition of commissioning new concertos for their instrument, especially when the...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2020

BRITTEN Sinfonia da Requiem (Gražinytė-Tyla)

Capitalising on Mirga GraŽinytė-Tyla and the CBSO’s Record of the Year triumph at this year’s Gramophone Awards, this purely digital...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (König)

Christoph König’s survey of the nine Beethoven symphonies (plus sundry overtures and Barry Cooper’s realisation of sketches for the Tenth)...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2020

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto (Daniel Lozakovich)

This latest Beethoven Violin Concerto recording might, in a sense, be called a ‘Homage to Fritz Kreisler’, and not just...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2020

AHO Symphony No 5. Sieidi

I have heard no more impactful or well-argued work from Kalevi Aho’s pen than his Symphony No 5. It is...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2020

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