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ADÈS Arcadiana NØRGÅRD String Quartet No 1 ABRAHAMSEN String Quartet No 1

Though recorded five months earlier, this disc closely resembles a concert the Danish Quartet gave in October, marking the beginning...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2016

RAVEL Orchestrations

Considering the cultural links that existed between Russia and France at the turn of the 20th century, it is no...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2016

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5

Reading Julian Barnes’s Shostakovich-based novella The Noise of Time (Jonathan Cape, 4/16), I couldn’t help thinking how the unpredictable Prokofiev,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2016

PENDERECKI Concertos for Strings. Concertos for Wind

Dux’s Penderecki edition continues apace with these two impressive surveys of concertos for string and wind instruments, both of them...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2016

Gershwin in Hollywood

It was said that George Gershwin would strive to write four songs first thing in the morning – to get...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2016

DICKINSON Orchestral Works

This disc of orchestral works is the latest in a string of recordings that have appeared since the time of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2016

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 1 - 9 (Complete)

This download-only release from Peral brings together the various instalments of Daniel Barenboim’s third Bruckner cycle in a single format...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2016

BIBER Rosary Sonatas – Podger

How heartening it is to see new recordings of Biber continuing to come through, even well after the double boost...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2015

TELEMANN 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin

Luigi De Filippi is mostly known as a chamber musician and conductor, but in 2013 he recorded a very enjoyable...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2016

SCRIABIN Preludes. Piano Sonata No 10 LISZT Late Works

Scriabin’s early 24 Preludes, Op 11, suggests that dreams and occasional nightmares can also be the soul of wit. And...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2016

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