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British Tone Poems
All but one of the six items on this latest serving of home-grown fare from Rumon Gamba and the BBC...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2017
WEINBERG Chamber Symphonies. Piano Quintet
In 1988 Mieczysaw Weinberg claimed he started using the term ‘chamber symphony’ because he ‘didn’t want to continue the sequence...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2017
TÜÜR Clarinet Concertos
It is Erkki-Sven Tüür’s tight control of material and form that frees his notes up to have such impact. The...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto Op 35. Meditation Op 42
First impressions count. The opening orchestral tutti of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is described Allegro moderato with a metronome marking of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2017
STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos Symphony Suite
There seems to be a trend these days for creating new orchestra-only arrangements of music from Strauss’s operas. We’ve just...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017
STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie. Tod und Verklärung
Three recordings of the Alpensinfonie have appeared within the past year, with this one from Mariss Jansons following those from...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017
SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No 1. Cello Sonatas
Plenty of recordings of the Cello Concerto No 1. Plenty of recordings of the Cello Sonata No 2. Single discs...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2017
O'REGAN A Celestial Map of the Sky
The centrepiece in this collection of recent works by Tarik O’Regan for choir and/or orchestra is A Celestial Map of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017
SKOG; NILSSON Violin Concertos
Recordings are coming thick and fast from the Swedish violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and each argues emphatically that strength of tone,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2016
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
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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