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SCHMIDT Symphony No 2

Semyon Bychkov and the Vienna Philharmonic brought Franz Schmidt’s Second Symphony to the BBC Proms in September 2015, only a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2017

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No 3

I was a bit sniffy about this team’s First and Second Concertos (6/17), which I felt were perfectly good if...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2017

RÖNTGEN Symphonies Nos 9 & 21

In a break with protocol, you’ll find a pretty honest appraisal of the music on this disc in its own...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2017

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1

The Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris play Russian repertoire very well. In the past season I’ve heard them perform...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2017

Mozart in Havana

For her first Mozart release, Simone Dinnerstein chooses two of the composer’s most deservedly popular (and oft-recorded) concertos. She plays...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2017

LINDBERG The Erratic Dreams of Mr Grönstedt

Of these two composers inspired to some extent by dreams, it’s the more easy-going Christian Lindberg who suggests that his...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2017

KRENEK Complete Piano Concertos Vol 2

There are still sceptics who cling to the notion that an atonal melody is a contradiction in terms. Such diehards...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2017

Elgar Rediscovered

Here’s another fascinating haul of historic Elgar recordings from Somm expertly compiled and restored by Lani Spahr. The 77-minute programme...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2017

DESYATNIKOV Sketches to Sunset. Russian Seasons

Leonid Desyatnikov is best known as a film composer and for his flamboyant and colourful arrangement of Piazzolla’s Four Seasons...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2017

CROSSE Concerto for Chamber Orchestra. Concertino

Lyrita’s mining of the Richard Itter archive continues with a further disc of Gordon Crosse, whose belated return to composing...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2017

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