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Elgar Rediscovered

Here’s another fascinating haul of historic Elgar recordings from Somm expertly compiled and restored by Lani Spahr. The 77-minute programme...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2017

DESYATNIKOV Sketches to Sunset. Russian Seasons

Leonid Desyatnikov is best known as a film composer and for his flamboyant and colourful arrangement of Piazzolla’s Four Seasons...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2017

CROSSE Concerto for Chamber Orchestra. Concertino

Lyrita’s mining of the Richard Itter archive continues with a further disc of Gordon Crosse, whose belated return to composing...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2017

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Ballot)

Rémy Ballot’s Bruckner recordings for Gramola (Symphonies Nos 3, 8 and 9) have thus far been notable for emulating the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2017

BRUCKNER Symphony No 3 WAGNER Tannhäuser Overture

This first instalment of a new Bruckner series by Andris Nelsons and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for DG couples the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2017

ADAMS; KORNGOLD Violin Concertos

Ilya Gringolts plays with a ferocity that – in tandem with taut rhythmic control – adroitly avoids even the slightest...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2017

The Lightning Fields

Jason Bergman’s adventurous recital of trumpet music written or revised since 2003, mostly premiere recordings, ranges from Richard Peaslee’s sad,...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2017

MOZART Chamber music for strings, oboe and piano

Mozart made it possible for musicians of many instrumental stripes to bask in his artistic genius. On this new CD,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2017

Cuatro Corridos – A Chamber Opera

The American soprano Susan Narucki was so horrified by the human trafficking rampant on the border between the United States...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07

KING Free Palestine, Book 1

Like its title, John King’s extended string quartet Free Palestine (2013 14; by my calculation the 22nd he has written)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017

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