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BRAHMS Serenades Nos 1 & 2

First impressions are wholly positive. Without sounding uncultivated, the Gävle Symphony Orchestra catch nicely the outdoorsy good humour of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2017

GLASS Violin Concerto BERNSTEIN Serenade after Plato’s Symposium

Glass and Bernstein may not trip off the tongue quite as easily as Bach and Handel or Haydn and Mozart,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2017

BÉRIOT Violin Concertos Nos 4, 6 & 7

It’s extraordinary how potent cheap music is. So goes that delicious quote of Noël Coward’s, and perhaps rather naughtily it’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2017

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Let me lay out information first of all: this is the conclusion of Yevgeny Sudbin’s cycle of the five Beethoven...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2017

Seven Responses

These seven chamber cantatas were commissioned by the innovative chamber chorus The Crossing to go with a 2016 concert performance...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2017

Dream Catchers

This release’s ‘masters in miniature’ subtext is a tad deceptive. The brief movements encompassing Schumann’s Carnaval and Ravel’s Valses nobles...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017

TURINA Complete Violiin Sonatas

Turina’s two numbered violin sonatas date from 1929 and 1933 34, either side – by a couple of years –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2017

Paul Reale: CME Presents Piano Celebration, Vol 2

Here’s a portion of what the American composer Paul Reale states in the notes about his works for two pianos...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2015

R LOMON Shadowing

Ruth Lomon (b1930) is Canadian-born and, after studying at the Conservatoire de Québec and McGill University, continued at the New...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2017

HIGDON All Things Majestic. Oboe Concerto. Viola Concerto

The orchestra is an enormous canvas to which Jennifer Higdon applies subtle and bold colours. Her ability to use instruments...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2017

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