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A PANUFNIK Violin, Cello and Piano Concertos

These three concertos make an effective introduction to the music of a composer whose birth centenary fell in 2014; and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2015

MOSOLOV Piano Concerto. Piano Sonata

No aficionado of Soviet music can afford to be without at least one disc of Alexander Mosolov, the composer who...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2015

MASCAGNI Rapsodia Satanica ROTA Il Gattopardo

The latest issue in Frank Strobel’s Original Motion Picture Scores series, surveying orchestral music written as live accompaniment for silent...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015

MANKELL; NYSTROEM Piano Concertos

Roughly a contemporary of Wilhelm Stenhammar, Henning Mankell (1868 1930) enjoyed an undramatic existence in Sweden as a critic and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 6

In December 2014 Daniel Harding stepped in to conduct this very work with the Berlin Philharmonic, a high-profile engagement in...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 1

Because Leonard Bernstein made his only studio recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in London, the first American ensemble to set...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2015

KUULA South Ostrobothnian Suits Nos 1 & 2

Leevi Madetoja described his friend and associate Toivo Kuula as ‘a man who knows what he wants and is confident...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2015

KRAGGERUD Equinox

There’s a lot going on here. Henning Kraggerud’s four concertos (‘Afternoon’, ‘Evening’, ‘Night’ and ‘Morning’) of six movements are reflections...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2015

KLUGHARDT Symphony No 4

I had never come across August Klughardt (1847-1902). There is a statue of him in Dessau, where he spent most...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015

HADLEY Tone Poems and Overtures

Boston-born Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937), sometimes known simply as Henry Hadley, is a figure of some importance in American musical...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015

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