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O DAVIS Flight. Voyager. Airborne Dances

Mainly set down in one session, Oliver Davis’s ‘Flight’ is a loose concept built around the violin-playing of Kerenza Peacock....

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2015

CASTIGLIONI La Buranella. Altisonanza

Three facets of Castiglioni’s homage to the past are represented on this disc from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, joined...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 3

To recap: in Gramophone’s March 2015 issue, I nominated Bruckner’s Third Symphony as his most problematic score and suggested that...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2015

BRIAN Symphonies Nos 9, 19 & 27

This disc is something special. It features some of Brian’s most attractive scores – including one of my very favourites,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015

BRAHMS; BRUCH Violin Concertos

Apart from bearing the title ‘Timeless’ and including several moody photos of David Garrett, this issue has no links to...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015

BOCCHERINI; HAYDN Las Passione

‘Even when not written out, a single bassoon is always present to double the basses. There was certainly no harpsichord...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH; SCHNITTKE Concertos for 2 Violins

The Nemtanu sisters – Sarah, leader of the French National Orchestra, and Deborah, leader of the Paris Chamber Orchestra –...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2015

CPE BACH Hamburg Symphonies

Unfettered personal feelings burst forth; calm mingling with turbulence and harmonic disruption leap off the page at every turn. Sakari...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015

ALBÉNIZ; GRANADOS Piano Concertos

This absorbing disc, the 65th in Hyperion’s endlessly enterprising ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series, juxtaposes the Albéniz Concerto with two first...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015

SCHUBERT Sonatas, Impromptus & Moments Musicaux

This is something special and I urge everyone interested in the discography of Schubert’s piano music to hear it. Unsure...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2015

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