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KELLY Orchestral Music

Born in 1934, Bryan Kelly was a composition pupil of Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob at the Royal College of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2015

British Cello Concertos

Here’s an exceedingly welcome anthology from Lyrita. Set down in Cardiff’s Hoddinott Hall over three days in December 2013, it...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2015

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 1, 39 & 49 GLUCK Don Juan

Gluck is never likely to be mistaken for one of the 18th century’s great melodists. He will be remembered, though,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2015

FRANCESCONI Inquieta limina. Piano Concerto

Last year should have seen the 50-something Luca Francesconi break through in the UK. Instead his violin concerto, Duende, failed...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2015

DUTILLEUX Symphony No 1

This admirable disc highlights a pair of French orchestral works from the 1960s which might once have seemed pallid and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2015

BYSTRÖM Picnic at Hanging Rock. A Walk After Dark. Invisible Cities

I first encountered Britta Byström’s music on Phono Suecia’s fascinating CD (‘Persuasion’, from her 2004 orchestral piece after Jane Austen)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015

BRUN Symphony No 4. Rhapsody

‘It is not my favourite amongst my symphonies. For the first time, I felt the music of Bruckner “distracting” me;...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8

At the turn of the year the BBC broadcast a radio series on Magna Carta which took the Scherzo of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 5

Turn straight to the Scherzo of Mario Venzago’s Fifth for a Ländler of considerable charm and subtle clumsiness, albeit on...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 3

I came to Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Bruckner Third with his bravura Schumann symphony cycle singing and dancing inside my head still,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2015

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