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MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos

What an apt coupling this is. The two composers were close friends; Medtner’s Second Concerto, completed in the summer of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2017

LIGETI Cello Concerto. Piano Concerto

György Ligeti’s 1966 Cello Concerto is meant to grow from the brink of silence, with a sustained note that gradually...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2017

IVES Orchestral Set No 2. Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

The first instalment of Andrew Davis’s Ives series (5/15), which included the First and Second Symphonies, was generally well received...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 04/2017

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 8 & 84

Harry Christophers and his Boston ensemble complete their cycle of the three ‘Times of Day’ symphonies, the three violin concertos...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04

HALVORSEN; NIELSEN Violin Concertos

So is Johan Halvorsen’s 1909 Violin Concerto – presumed destroyed until it was found in 2015 – a rediscovered masterpiece?...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017

Amy Dickson: Glass

Given the saxophone’s importance in early minimalist scores and its central role in defining the unique sound of Glass’s ensemble...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017

DEVIENNE Flute Concertos Nos 5 - 8

Pity François Devienne, who died in the Charenton asylum of derangement brought about (according to a sympathetic pupil) ‘by the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Thielemann)

Towards the end of the Scherzo, the camera catches a viola player giving a smile to a colleague. It’s a...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2017

BRUCKNER Symphonies No 2 (Ivor Bolton)

Despite Ivor Bolton’s Bruckner recordings having been praised in these pages by Peter Quantrill, Richard Osborne and Edward Greenfield, the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2017

BRAHMS Complete Symphonies

Twenty years ago, much was made of an attempt by Sir Charles Mackerras to recover a performing tradition familiar to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017

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