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VAN KLENAU Concertos. Symphony No 8 (Graf)

Paul von Klenau (1883-1946) was a Danish composer who went from writing like Bruckner to writing like Schoenberg, living much...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2023

HISAISHI A Symphonic Celebration

Hitchcock and Herrmann, Spielberg and Williams – director-composer pairings among whom writer Michael Beek nominates as co-companions Hayao Miyazaki and...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2023

HANDEL 'Water and Fire'

These are spirited, uplifting performances of the most popular of Handel’s orchestral works, played on period instruments about a semitone...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2023

GRISEY Dérives

If, in Boulez’s Pli selon pli, you’ve ever wanted those bewitchingly beautiful chords to last longer than a couple of...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 10/2023

GLAZUNOV; SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concertos (Rudolf Koelman)

Here we have an attractive pairing of violin concertos that are not over-represented in the recording catalogues: Saint-Saëns’s Third and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023

CHEN GANG Butterfly Lovers

Transcription often allows music one knows well to be heard in new or different contexts – think of Busoni’s reworkings...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Järvi)

They say the apple never falls far from the tree, so it’s perhaps not surprising to find Paavo Järvi’s second...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2023

BJARNASON 'From Earth to Ether'

Daníel Bjarnason is best known to the record catalogue as the conductor responsible for the Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s continuing series...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos (Steven Devine)

Bach was an inveterate assembler. Long after he had jettisoned his liturgical cantata cycles for solo keyboard collections in Leipzig...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2023

TUBIN Kratt

Another riveting performance from Paavo Järvi’s army-of generals Estonian Festival Orchestra and another album on which it’s hard to get...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2023

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