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JS BACH Mass in B minor, BWV 232

The filming of this B minor Mass operates under some confusion as to whether the music is there to illustrate...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017

TELEMANN; WEBER; BAKSA; BRUCH Viola Concerto

Few contemporary composers are harder to pin down than Andreas Baksa (1950 2016). Too easily confused with the American composer...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue:

Chailly: Overtures, Preludes & Intermezzi

At first, this looks like a random collection of overtures, preludes and intermezzos gathered by Riccardo Chailly, mixing the familiar...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2017

New Era

It was the 18th-century Mannheimers that put the clarinet on the map and inspired Mozart to mine the full expressive...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

Frühling in Wien

It’s hardly surprising that an Austrian conductor who earlier on in his professional life played in both the Vienna Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2017

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

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