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HANDEL Concerti Grossi Op 6 Nos 1-6 (Forck)

Now recording for Pentatone after 25 years with Harmonia Mundi, the AAM Berlin mark the occasion with the first six...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2019

GLASS A Descent into the Maelstrom

Among the most prolific of composers today, Philip Glass also has never been averse to the rearranging of his scores...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2019

DVORÁK Symphony No 9 (König)

It’s a neat idea framing Dvořák’s ubiquitous New World with two miniatures of authentic Americana – one rural, one urban...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2019

BRAHMS; SEGERSTAM Symphonies (Segerstam)

Aside from having a title like a complicated computer password (ulFSöDErBlom in Memoriam), Leif Segerstam’s 23 minute Symphony No 295...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2019

BRAHMS Symphony No 3 DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 (Hrůša)

I wasn’t all that enthused by the initial instalment in this series, a pairing of Brahms’s Fourth and Dvořák’s Ninth...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2019

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Runnicles)

A late and grand maestro sat in his dressing room, the story goes, after giving his all to another Ninth....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019

Quadrants Vol 3

The third volume in Navona’s enterprising ‘Quadrants’ recordings of new music for string quartet gives voice to an intriguingly conservative...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2019

Clarinet Classics at Riversdale (Robert DiLutis)

Sometimes, not as often as I would like, one listens to a new disc and knows from the very first...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019

ZINK The Cloud of Unknowing: Explorations in Chamber Music

The title of this disc of chamber music for strings by Canadian-born Steve Zink, ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’, is curiously...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019

K SMITH The Arc in the Sky

Kile Smith describes his The Arc in the Sky as a ‘65-minute pilgrimage for unaccompanied choir’, and, he might have...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2019

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