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DALLAPICCOLA Works for Orchestra

As Christoph Schlüren points out in his informative booklet-note, orchestral music occupies a limited place within Dallapiccola’s output – making...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2014

CLEMENTI Piano Concerto No 3. Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

The single extant piano concerto of Clementi is this C major Concerto, and it survives only in a copy in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1

Ivor Bolton makes a convincingly grand case for Bruckner’s First as a work of innovative maturity, with no less experience...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2014

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Brahms and Gergiev could hardly be described as natural bedfellows but there were moments in the Third Symphony where the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2014

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 8

Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs a more or less exemplary account of Beethoven’s Second Symphony. The outer movements are swift-moving...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2014

DEBUSSY Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp TAKEMITSU And then I knew 'twas Wind

Debussy’s extraordinary work used to be found in collections of chamber music by his contemporaries and immediate successors. Ravel, Guy...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014

Taracea: Seldom Sene

The subtitle suggests a spanning of ‘five centuries’; I make it six, perhaps even seven. Be that as it may,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2014

SCHNITTKE; WEINBERG; KURTAG; PENDERECKI String Trios

Here is a worthwhile survey of string trios that are more usually heard as part of composer compilations. The Ensemble...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2014

USTVOLSKAYA Sonata. Trio. Duet

The belated recognition of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) as a figure of importance tailed off once the limited extent of her...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2014

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 20. Piano Duets

The title ‘1828’ refers to Schubert’s final and astoundingly productive year, which brought forth the three duets and solo sonata...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014

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