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GINASTERA Concerto per corde. Estudios sinfonicos

The Concerto for Strings (1965) and Glosses on Themes by Pablo Casals (heard here in its original string orchestra version...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16

FIELD Piano Concerto No 7. Irish Concerto

With this disc, Benjamin Frith finally completes his cycle of Field’s piano concertos. The Seventh Concerto was made back in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16

ROUSSEL Bacchus et Ariane DEBUSSY 6 Epigraphes antiques

Kazuki Yamada’s new album forms a tacit tribute to the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande’s founder Ernest Ansermet, since the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW16

STRAVINSKY Petrushka DEBUSSY La boîte à joujoux

Competition could scarcely be fiercer in Petrushka. Unlike Vladimir Jurowski’s recent offering, this one opts for the 1947 version. The...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16

CORIGLIANO Symphony No 1 COPLAND Appalachian Spring

This is the third recording of John Corigliano’s Symphony No 1, the American composer’s enraged and elegiac response to the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16

DALE; CLARKE Pieces for Viola

Richard Walthew’s A Mosaic in Ten Pieces (with Dedication) is a long name for a short work. So try this....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW16

BRAHMS Double Concerto

Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis are distinct musical personalities yet they work together extremely well in Brahms’s interpretatively perilous Double...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16

BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin. Dance Suite. Contrasts

This disc presents a satisfying if somewhat quirkily planned programme. Near the opening of The Miraculous Mandarin ballet Salonen takes...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW16

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

There is not much Bach in the Capella Savaria discography but this Brandenburg Concertos set follows on from a violin...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW16

Ave Maria: Music for Upper Voices

The Anglican church is responsible for generating a unique repertoire of music for upper voices – music that is celebrated...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW16

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