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GORTON Orfordness. Fosdyke Wash

Now in his mid-thirties, David Gorton is a composer working in the more radical domain of post-war British music. This...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2015

ENESCU; PROKOFIEV; SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonatas

Laura Buruiana and Alexandra Silocea, who both come from Romania, make a formidable duo, playing with immense assurance, verve and...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (arr Chamber Ensemble)

Trevor Pinnock and the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble – who have recorded symphonies by Mahler and Bruckner in...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015

MACMILLAN; MAXWELL DAVIES Piano Trios

After their splendid Mendelssohn recording (11/14), the Gould Trio turn to a very different programme. The MacMillan works are strongly...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015

JS BACH Musical Offering

The Ricercar Consort’s recording activities in recent years have focused mainly on sacred music for voices and instruments, so it...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2015

JS BACH; CPE BACH Sonatas for viola da gamba

Should it always be a viola da gamba of six or seven gut and metal wound strings, tuned in fourths...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2015

The English Cathedral Series, Vol 19: Peterborough

This latest instalment in Regent’s trawl through the organs of English cathedrals takes us to Peterborough. Here an 1894 William...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2015

WIDOR Organ Symphonies Nos 1-4

The four symphonies of the Op 13 set originated in 1872. Nowadays we hear them – 24 movements in all...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015

SMETANA Piano Works

In 2005 Jitka Čechová launched what promises to be the most comprehensive Smetana cycle on disc. Ten years later she...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015

SCHUBERT Fantasie Sonata. Hungarian Melody

I wish there were more CDs of Schubert’s piano music like this – a well-planned programme but also a recital...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2015

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