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GUINJOAN Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra

Born in 1931, Joan Guinjoan is one of Catalonia’s most distinguished composers, having been part of the establishment of what...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014

GOEBBELS Suite for Sampler and Orchestra

Yet a further outfit intent on ringing the changes, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra juxtaposes works by figures who are not...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014

GARCIA Auschwitz. In memoriam Earle Brown

Havana-born Orlando Jacinto García turns 60 this year, and this characteristically courageous issue from Toccata Classics allows us the opportunity...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014

FOULDS Saint Joan Suite. Puppet Ballet Suite

This may well be the most rewarding volume yet in Dutton’s hugely enterprising John Foulds series. Particularly striking here is...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014

DONATONI Orchestral Works

Discs by the Italian composer Franco Donatoni, who died in 2000, come along rarely enough that each one of them...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2014

CHIN Piano Concerto. Cello Concerto

Unsuk Chin is one of the best contemporary exponents of purely instrumental music drama, and these concertos provide absorbing listening....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5

Collectors who own the superlative set of the Brahms piano concertos which Nelson Freire made with Chailly and the Leipzig...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2014

BARTÓK Suite No 1. Kossuth

JoAnn Falletta’s performances of these early Bartók show-stoppers really do raise the roof. Making the First Suite sound compelling is...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2014

JS BACH Violin Concertos

For all the ‘con moto’ hype of modern-day Italian Baroque musicians in recent years – including Giuliano Carmignola sitting on...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014

AHO Theramin Concerto. Horn Concerto

Eighteen concertos, by the composer’s own reckoning, for each of the main instruments in the Romantic symphony orchestra, and counting....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2014

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