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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade (Petrenko)

After his avian double bill of The Firebird and The Golden Cockerel with the RLPO (Onyx, 1/19), Vasily Petrenko has...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020

PROKOFIEV Suites from The Gambler and The Tale of the Stone Flower

Quietly and without fuss, Moscow-born Finnish-resident Dima Slobodeniouk has been rising through the ranks with posts in Galicia and Lahti...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2020

MACMILLAN Symphony No 4. Viola Concerto (Lawrence Power)

Onyx’s 2016 release of James MacMillan’s Symphony No 4 featured this large-scale single-movement work alongside the composer’s Violin Concerto. Here...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020

LINDBERG Accused. 2 Episodes

Lindberg’s Accused sets three transcripts from real-life interrogations. Indecipherability of the words dogged the piece when it was premiered in...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2020

ICHMOURATOV Symphony 'On the Ruins of an Ancient Fort'

Airat Ichmouratov (b1973) is a Tatarstan-born, Canadian-resident composer. He has lived in Montreal since the 1990s but his musical roots...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020

HAYDN Cello Concertos (Natalie Clein)

Period performance isn’t necessarily something naturally associated with the British cellist Natalie Clein but this live recording of Haydn’s two...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2020

Cello Libris: Works by Geoffrey Gordon

This is apparently the first release to be dedicated to Geoffrey Gordon (b1968), though the composer has built up a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020

ELGAR Cello Concerto CLYNE Dance (Inbal Segev)

I’m struggling to remember the last time a piece of contemporary music made me cry. Ten weeks of solitary lockdown...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020

DUBRA Symphony No 2. Mystery of His Birth

In the extended interview with Dāvis Eņģelis contained in the accompanying booklet to this disc, Rihards Dubra discusses many aspects...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2020

DEBUSSY Images. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Elder)

‘Well written, but with that skill born of habit that one has so much difficulty conquering and which is so...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2020

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