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JÄRNEFELT Song of the Scarlet Flower

Mauritz Stiller is credited with discovering Greta Garbo but before he went to Hollywood he directed the first Swedish blockbuster,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2019

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 9, 65 & 67 (Antonini)

The seventh volume of Giovanni Antonini’s projected Haydn symphony cycle turns to works with theatrical connections. Poor old Symphony No...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2019

GULDA; OFFENBACH Cello Concertos (Edgar Moreau)

Offenbach composed his Concerto militaire in 1847, more than a decade before the premiere of his first operetta, Orphée aux...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2019

S GOSS Theorbo Concerto (Matthew Wadsworth)

Here is the giraffe-like time-travelling theorbo, in the beautiful Prelude to Stephen Goss’s hauntingly variegated concerto, startled to find itself...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2019

GERSHWIN 'Centennial Edition’ (Serebrier)

Originally released on the Dinemec Classics label to celebrate George Gershwin’s centenary in 1998, this recording reappears on Somm 20...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2019

BUSONI Piano Concerto (Gerstein)

Busoni’s mighty Piano Concerto responds well to live recordings – just think of Donohoe and Elder at the Proms back...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2019

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9, 'Choral' (Ozawa)

Rehearsing for ad hoc projects in the coastal city north of Tokyo that lends the ensemble its name, the Mito...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2019

AHO Trombone Concerto. Trumpet Concerto (Brabbins)

He may be best known for his cycle of (so far) 17 symphonies but Kalevi Aho, who turns 70 this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2019

Sandro Russo: Images et Mirages

Here’s a late entry among 2018’s numerous Debussy anniversary offerings, featuring pianist Sandro Russo in Images Books 1 and 2,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2019

The John Psathas Percussion Project, Vol 1

I first encountered the music of John Psathas, a New Zealand composer of Greek heritage born in 1966, on Evelyn...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2019

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