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An English Fantasy

Here’s an amiable disc exploring the light end of contemporary clarinet composition in works written especially for soloist Emma Johnson....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2016

Brandenburg Celebrates

It wouldn’t do to allow one’s imagination to stray too far over the cover artwork to this 25th-anniversary studio recording...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016

YSAŸE Neiges d’antan and other poems

The poème, wrote Eugène Ysaÿe, ‘is free from all the restrictions imposed by the hallowed concerto form; it can be...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2016

WEINBERGER Bohemian Songs & Dances. Passacaglia

The first significant point to strike home about this varied programme is the excellence of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester’s playing under...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016

ROTT Symphony No 1

Expanded for the occasion, the Mozarteum Orchestra gets off to a sluggish start in the lengthy (patient, if you’re disposed...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2016

MOZART Three Salzburg Symphonies

BIS remasters recordings of two symphonies that had limited circulation a decade ago and adds a new one of K338...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 4 WIDMANN ad absurdum

The teenage Mendelssohn laid down a gauntlet with his First Symphony (a decade earlier, Schubert had done the same with...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2016

MAHLER Symphony No 5. Selected Songs from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'

Andris Nelsons is a conductor with whom I feel more and more kinship. Making music is so much about making...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2016

KHACHATURIAN; RAUTAVAARA Flute Concertos

Jean-Pierre Rampal’s transcription for flute of Aram Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto works better on disc than in the concert hall, where...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2016

HAYDN Cello Concertos

Great musical instruments weren’t made to gather dust in museum cases, so when Pavel Gomziakov released his new recording of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016

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