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NIELSEN Complete Symphonies

‘I still don’t understand how there can be no word for “please” and no phrase for “nice to meet you”,’...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2016

NIELSEN Violin Concerto. Prelude & Theme with Variations

No one takes on the Nielsen Violin Concerto lightly. Its technical demands are not a whit less than those of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2016

MONTANARI Violin Concertos

‘One is right always to be more than a little cautious about pleading in favour of the admission of a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2016

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Jennifer Pike works hard, perhaps against the grain, to counter the impression of prettiness that Mendelssohn’s music still leaves in...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2016

IVES A Symphony: New England Holidays

The two early Ives symphonies recorded by the same team (5/15) are relatively plain sailing compared with some of these...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 02/2016

HOSOKAWA Voyage VIII. Voyage X

The music of Toshio Hosokawa (b1955) is often said to synthesise Eastern philosophy (Zen Buddhism) with Western aesthetics (Expressionism). But...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2016

HILLBORG Sirens

Beast Sampler was well received at last year’s Proms and you can hear in its glacial coolness and spatial breadth...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2016

GÓRECKI Symphony No 4

Over 30 years may separate Górecki’s Third and Fourth Symphonies but it would be misleading to attribute such a long...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2016

GINASTERA Estancia. Pampeana

This is Ginastera’s centenary year. If he died way too young (aged just 67, in 1983), his legacy still leaves...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2016

BRISTOW Symphony No 2

Rebecca Miller follows up her disc of music by the American composer Henry Kimball Hadley (Dutton, 10/15) with a symphony...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016

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