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MOZART Bassoon Concerto K191 M HAYDN Divertimento

Four works by two composers combine to create this hour-long concert of the sort that was common in Salzburg during Mozart’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2017

FRICKER Symphonies Nos 1- 4

Lyrita follows up its useful pairing (4/16) of Peter Racine Fricker’s oratorio The Vision of Judgement (1958) and Fifth Symphony...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2017

ELCOCK Symphony No 3. Festive Overture

It is humbling that a self-taught European composer in his sixties can have written such a stack of well-crafted, emotionally...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2017

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 1 (Bosch)

Antonin Dvořák never heard his First Symphony. Submitted in 1865 for a competition in Leipzig, it disappeared shortly afterwards. A certain...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017

DEBUSSY La Boîte à joujoux. Khamma. Jeux

>‘The characters of this ballet are like moths in the night, like children who do not know the rules of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017

BORENSTEIN Violin Concerto

Although his music has attracted significant premieres and several recordings, this is the highest-profile disc yet devoted to the British-French-Israeli composer...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2017

Silence and Music

If you look back through the Gabrieli Consort’s discography you can see a new trend emerging. Among the large-scale works...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2017

MACHAUT Nostre Dame

Nowadays it is rare for recordings of early polyphony to span Machaut, Victoria and everything in between. The Vienna Vocal Consort are...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2017

Handel Goes Wild

You could be forgiven if you failed to recognise the overture to Handel’s Alcina behind the jazz piano breaks, plucked bass and klezmer...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017

The Ear of the Huguenots

The first main virtue of this issue is that nothing here seems to have been recorded before, apart from Palestrina’s Mass...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2017

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