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PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos

Two competent and enjoyable but not world-beating performances here of two of Prokofiev’s most captivating scores. Matthew Trusler and Rudolf Koelman...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW17

PALMGREN Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5

Selim Palmgren (1878-1951) appeared in these pages far more frequently in days of yore than he does now. His star...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW17

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto. Symphony No 5

What kind of a violinist was Ferdinand David, for (and with) whom Mendelssohn composed his Violin Concerto? At a time when...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW17

MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Chailly)

There are several distinguished accounts of this symphony in audio-visual format to which Riccardo Chailly now adds another, a souvenir...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2017

LLOYD Symphonies Nos 6 & 7

Lyrita released the first discs of George Lloyd’s symphonies on disc back in the early 1980s, with LPs of the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW17

JONES Symphonies Nos 1, 2, 10 & 11

/> In a Gramophone interview (‘Exploring the Frontiers’, 2/87), Bryden Thomson said of Daniel Jones: ‘He knows what he wants, he knows...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW17

HAGLUND Flaminis Aura

One tangible observation from the booklet note is that Tommie Haglund’s Flaminis Aura (2001/04) takes its structural inspiration from the Adagio...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17

CHISHOLM Violin Concerto. Dance Suite

Three cheers for this enterprising successor to Hyperion’s superb coupling (6/12) devoted to the two piano concertos by the Scottish progressive...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW17

CASELLA Symphony No 2

Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) composed his Second Symphony between 1908 and 1910 in Paris, where, as a 13-year-old, he had enrolled...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW17

BEN-HAIM Symphony No 2. Concerto Grosso

Once championed by the likes of Stokowski and Bernstein, Paul Ben-Haim’s music is little heard these days, making this recording...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW17

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