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GLASS In the Summer House MUHLY Four Studies

Philip Glass may have studied with two of the 20th century’s most revered teachers – Vincent Persichetti and Nadia Boulanger...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2016

COSTANZI Cello Sonatas

‘Giovanni del Violoncello’ was the contemporary nickname awarded to the now-forgotten 18th-century Italian cellist-composer Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704 78), giving...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2016

BUTLER Dirty Beasts. Down-Hollow Winds. Rondes d'Automne

Plenty of new music has pretensions it can’t sustain. Not so Martin Butler’s. His output comes close to post-minimalism yet...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2016

ENJAMIN Dream of the Song LINDBERG Era TAN DUN The Wolf

Here’s the second recording of Magnus Lindberg’s Era to be issued this year. The piece was written for the RCO,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2016

READ THOMAS EOS MUHLY Control NORMAN Switch

This disc contains premiere recordings of the three works commissioned by the Utah Symphony to celebrate its 75th birthday, and...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 07/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 DVOŘÁK Rusalka Fantasy

‘It is not necessary to add sugar to honey.’ Manfred Honeck quotes his predecessor as music director at the Pittsburgh...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2016

STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite. Apollon musagète

Intentionally or not, Masaaki Suzuki’s first foray into 20th-century repertoire on disc recalls that of Neville Marriner, whose 1960s pairing...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2016

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben. Intermezzo

The first instalment of Strauss from Andrew Davis and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra had the Four Last Songs as its...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016

STANFORD Piano Concerto No 2

Premiered in Norfolk, Connecticut, in 1915 by the pianist Harold Bauer, Stanford’s Piano Concerto No 2, actually composed in 1911,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2016

SCRIABIN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Thanks to the focus on Scriabin’s music that came with the run-up to the centenary of his death last year...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2016

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