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FRID Symphony No 3. Concerto for Viola, Piano and Orchestra

Born into a Jewish family in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) in 1915, Grigory Frid studied music at the Moscow Conservatory,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW2019

FAURÉ The Secret Fauré II

For their first ‘Secret Fauré’ disc (12/18), Ivor Bolton and the Basel Symphony Orchestra surveyed the composer’s incidental music and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2019

Leningrad Symphonies

They may have been plundered after the USSR’s demise but Soviet radio archives continue to yield gems such as these...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Gardner)

On first acquaintance, I found Edward Gardner’s fleet, streamlined readings of Brahms’s First and Third Symphonies straightforward almost to a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2019

BERNSTEIN; GÁL; KAMINSKI Violin Concertos (Erez Ofer)

Hans Gál’s Concertino for violin and string orchestra (1939) was one of the first works he composed in Britain following...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019

BERMEL Migrations

The CV of Derek Bermel (b1967) is as varied and colourful as his music. A clarinettist as well as a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 STRAUSS Metamorphosen (Salonen)

The intriguingly named Sinfonia Grange au Lac (literally ‘The Barn on the Lake’) bows in here under its first mentor...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2019

BEETHOVEN Egmont (Häkkinen)

Beethoven wrote the incidental music to Egmont while in the process of transforming Leonore (1805 06) into Fidelio (1814) and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2019

RUNESTAD The Hope of Loving

‘To be calm, to be serene!’ writes Henry David Thoreau at the end of his poem ‘Reflections’, the first text...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW2019

RACHMANINOV Piano Trios (Hermitage Piano Trio)

Rachmaninov’s piano trios have been extremely lucky on disc, with dozens of world-class versions (both sonically and interpretatively speaking) from...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2019

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