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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

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

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