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PETTERSSON Violin Concerto No 2 (Wallin)

Michael Oliver described Pettersson’s Second Violin Concerto (1977 79) in these pages as ‘perplexing but absorbing, infuriatingly chaotic but somehow...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2019

MAHLER 'Titan', Symphony No 1 (original version)

For once the title does not deceive. Presented here is a version of the two-part, five-movement symphonic poem which Mahler...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2019

LECLAIR Violin Concertos (Leila Schayegh)

On this marvellous Leclair concerto programme Leila Schayegh plays Nos 2 and 6 from each of Leclair’s Opp 7 and...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2019

ELFMAN Violin Concerto. Piano Quartet (Sandy Cameron)

In his booklet-note introduction to these stand-alone concert works Danny Elfman asks the question so often asked, namely why it...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2019

DEBUSSY La Mer STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring (van Zweden)

Jaap van Zweden took up his post as music director of the New York Philharmonic at the start of this...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2019

COPLAND Billy the Kid. Grohg (Slatkin)

Copland’s score for the ballet Grohg dates from the time of his studies with Nadia Boulanger in the early 1920s....

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2019

BRAUNFELS Fantastical Apparitions on a theme by Hector Berlioz

Back in the 1990s, Walter Braunfels’s 1920 opera The Birds was one of the most glorious rediscoveries in Decca’s ‘Entartete...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019

BRAHMS; LIGETI Violin Concertos (Hadelich)

Augustin Hadelich’s performance of Brahms’s Violin Concerto abounds with subtle detail. Listen, for example, to the way he digs into...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

BEN-HAIM Evocation

Leonard Bernstein’s recording of The Sweet Psalmist of Israel helped to keep his name alive but the music of Paul...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2019

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (WDR Symphony/Saraste)

From the early days of its work with Klemperer, Wand and Rosbaud, and then the ’60s tenure of Christoph von...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2019

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