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KURTÁG Kafka Fragments

Although he had written several major song and instrumental collections over the preceding three decades, it was Kafka Fragments (1987)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2015

HANDEL; CORELLI Cantatas Vol 2

Contrasto Armonico group together all four of Handel’s Italian cantatas for solo bass voice. A speculative hint of the context...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2015

DALBAVIE Sonnets. Sextine-Cyclus

Postmodernism offers itself as a (sometimes) refreshing alternative to those abrasive and ultra-complex features of modernism that have been around...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2015

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Concerto for 2 Pianos. A London Symphony

This is the first recording of Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony in its initial 1920 publication since Eugene Goossens’s notable...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2015

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 8 & 9

If the documentation didn’t suggest otherwise, one might be forgiven for thinking that these performances were the work of, if...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2015

RACHMANINOV; SHCHEDRIN Piano Concertos

Pianists in the great Russian tradition were, and in many instances still are, renowned for taking no prisoners. That’s the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2015

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No 2. Sonata for 2 Violins

In 2013 Chandos stole a march on competitors by presenting Prokofiev’s ‘Complete Works for Violin’ in a neat two-disc bundle...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2015

POULENC Piano Concerto. Concerto for 2 Pianos

As Louis Lortie remarks in a booklet-note, ‘[Poulenc’s] Piano Concerto is almost a guilty pleasure: raw melodic talent unstained by...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2015

PIERNÉ Orchestral Works Vol 2

At the heart of this disc lie three works that Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) composed for piano and orchestra: the Scherzo-Caprice...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2015

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

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