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MOZART Symphonies Nos 39-41 (Minasi)

‘The most limpid and lyrical music in existence’ was Eric Blom’s verdict on Symphony No 39 in his Master Musicians...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2020

MOZART Haffner Serenade. Ein musikalischer Spaß

This extremely well-filled SACD presents the heftiest of Mozart’s Salzburg serenades along with an associated march and the evergreen Musical...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

MIHAJLOVIC Memento - Orchestral Works

That Serbia has produced no composer of international standing this past half century makes one wonder whether different geopolitical factors...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020

MAW Spring Music. Voices of Memory. Sonata for Solo Violin

This is a terrific disc. It is a little over 10 years since the death of Nicholas Maw (1935-2009), one...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2020

KÕRVITS Hymn to the Nordic Lights

Tõnu Kõrvits is an impressively unpredictable composer. Just when you think that the very brief Azure (2016 17) is becoming...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020

KORNGOLD Violin Concerto. String Sextet (Andrew Haveron)

Andrew Haveron joins very select, indeed mighty company – from Heifetz to Mutter and beyond – in the Korngold Concerto....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020

GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN For Violin and Orchestra

Both of the concertante works on this disc take the listener on journeys through slowly changing musical landscapes. Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020

BRITTEN; HINDEMITH; MARTINU; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Works for Viola and Orchestra

A product of the Royal Academy of Music, pupil of Nobuko Imai and BBC New Generation Artist, London-born Timothy Ridout...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2020

BRAHMS; SCHOENBERG Violin Concertos (Jack Liebeck)

The beauty of this coupling lies with the way in which two such highly distinctive works impact upon each other....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos (Stewart Goodyear)

One of the more recent entries into the Beethoven Piano Concerto sweepstakes is the collaboration of the Canadian pianist Stewart...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2020

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