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GRIEG Piano Concerto. Lyric Pieces

When Alice Sara Ott’s Liszt Transcendental Etudes appeared a few years back (3/10), I was mightily impressed. But the nearly...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016

ELGAR Enigma Variations. In the South (Alassio)

Martyn Brabbins masterminds an expansive, ideally flexible and notably unflustered reading of Elgar’s In the South, one which quarries this...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2016

DIEPENBROCK Symphonic Poems

The Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) was one of music’s great amateurs. An academic classicist by profession, he was self-taught...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016

DEBUSSY Images, Jeux & La Plus Que Lente

Although it was overshadowed by the furore surrounding the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring a fortnight later, Debussy’s...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2016

NIELSEN; DEBUSSY; FRANÇAIX Clarinet Concertos

‘A clarinet can sound as hysterical as – pardon me – a woman.’ Irmlind Capelle’s booklet-note quotes Carl Nielsen’s provocative...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016

CZERNOWIN The Crescendo Trilogy

Less is more, as the saying goes. It’s a paradox that Chaya Czernowin (b1957) pushes to the hilt here, crafting...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 11/2016

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8

Although the 1887 version of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony is generally regarded as being inferior to the revision that appeared in...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2016

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4

Given their long history of Bruckner performances under principal conductors such as Hausegger, Kabasta, Celibidache and Thielemann, the Munich Philharmonic’s...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2016

Musica Viva 22

Search for a composer connecting George Benjamin to Tristan Murail, and look no further than Olivier Messiaen, who taught the...

Reviewed in issue 11/2016

ANTHEIL Ballet mécanique

The milieu into which George Antheil introduced his mid 1920s Ballet mécanique and A Jazz Symphony was already reverberating with...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2016

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