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POULENC Piano Concerto. Organ Concerto

It could take traditional labels years to attract artists of this calibre to record works of this scale. Instead we...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018

Hommage à Penderecki

Anne-Sophie Mutter has advocated contemporary music throughout her four-decade career and Krzysztof Penderecki above all, as this two-disc 85th birthday...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018

PARRY Symphony No 4 (Gamba)

Three most welcome additions to the Parry discography, all enjoying a new lease of life thanks to the indefatigable musicological...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2018

PROKOFIEV; NIELSEN Violin Concertos (Petrova)

Liya Petrova and Jiyoon Lee shared first prize in the 2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition. Lee’s terrific recording of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Fischer)

Eight unison horns dramatically announce Mahler’s pantheistic hymn to the natural world. And if the opening bars of Adám Fischer’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018

HOLST Orchestral Works (Davis)

Initiated years ago by the late Richard Hickox and continued splendidly with Vol 3 by Andrew Davis (12/13), this latest...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2018

HAYDN Concerti per Esterházy (Beyer)

Haydn’s violin concertos do better on disc than in concert and period-instrument recordings appear surprisingly often. The C major and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2018

GLAZUNOV The Seasons TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade (Kitayenko)

It’s hard to imagine any new recording of Glazunov’s The Seasons being anything other than a pleasure. It’s not that...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2018

FOX Topophony

Calling a composition Topophony might suggest an emphasis on musical mathematics and acoustics. But the full title, ‘Topophony for orchestra,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2018

ELGAR Short Orchestral Works (Lloyd-Jones)

Two of the last century’s greatest symphonists, though disparately placed in so many respects, had one thing in common: both...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2018

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