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MAXWELL DAVIES Concert Overture. Last Door of Light

Two substantial late works of Maxwell Davies here receive first recordings. Ebb of Winter (2013) is designated a concert overture,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2016

D'INDY Symphony No 2

The d’Indy discography has become increasingly distinguished of late, largely thanks to Rumon Gamba’s comprehensive survey of the orchestral works...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2016

GRANADOS Elisenda. Liliana. Suite oriental

Softly chiming horns open this final instalment in Naxos’s three-disc series of rare orchestral works by Enrique Granados. They launch...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

GOETZ Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Hermann Goetz (1840 76) enjoyed a tragically brief, Mozartian lifespan. Though his music was quickly forgotten after his death, it...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2016

ELGAR Symphony No 1

Hot on the heels of the Germans – Barenboim’s Staatskapelle Berlin – the Italians now boldly go where they too...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2016

DUTILLEUX Mystère de l'instant. Timbres, espace, mouvement

Here is the third instalment of Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s Henri Dutilleux cycle, also available in a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2016

BRUCKNER Study Symphony

Following the completion of his harmony and counterpoint studies with Simon Sechter, Bruckner took lessons in form and orchestration from...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2016

BLACHER Concertino HINDEMITH Kleine Kammermusik

If I say that what we have here is a varied exhibition in charcoals rather than oils, that’s not meant...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2016

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 - 8

If there is a constituency for recordings such as these it is probably among the ‘easy listening’ community: folk who...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2016

Anna Netrebko: Verismo

Anna Netrebko is not the first superstar singer to release an album that uses a loose description of the term...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2016

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