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Mind Music

As the title indicates, on this disc the composers, performers and the music itself are linked by depression, Parkinson’s disease...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017

Flux

Flux represents five recipients of Rambert Dance Company’s Music Fellowship scheme. Established by the company’s music director Paul Hoskins in...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2017

WALTON Violin Concerto

Having already given us impressive versions of the two symphonies (Hyperion, 10/11), Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2017

TELEMANN Concerto per molti stromenti

In these historical performance-aware times it’s now a comparatively rare event for a Baroque recording to throw up a genuine...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2017

TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade

Spot the Ponte Vecchio – however blurred the photograph – on a CD cover and it’s a fair bet that...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2017

TANSMAN Ballet Music

Interest in Tansman’s music in recent years has led to a large number of recordings but none so far as...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017

SUK Asrael

Suk’s great memorial symphony to his father-in-law Dvořák and his own wife is indelibly associated on disc with the Czech...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2017

STRAUSS Metamorphosen. Symphony for Wind Instruments

Richard Strauss didn’t do himself any favours when he called his late compositions ‘wrist exercises’, and I’ll confess that previous...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8

Andrey Boreyko, best known to record buyers as a skilful proponent of contemporary or near-contemporary music from the ex-Soviet bloc,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2017

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

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