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O'CONNELL North. Four Orchestral Pieces. The Symphony

Kevin O’Connell (b1958) is a Northern Irish composer, resident since 1997 in Dublin. The three orchestral works gathered here date...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014

RAVEL Ma Mère L'oye MUSSORGSKY Pictures at and Exhibition

As in Anima Eterna’s previous releases, it is the woodwind and brass that immediately make a distinctive, mellow impact on...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 18 & 22

In a letter to his daughter Nannerl, Leopold Mozart expressed his pleasure at the interplay of the various instruments after...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 14 & 27

Ingrid Jacoby pairs two of Mozart’s most delectable concertos on her new disc, which is rounded out with the early...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2014

MARTTINEN Violin and Piano Concertos

Tauno Marttinen (1912-2008) was born when Finland was still a Russian Imperial Grand Duchy; he died two months short of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014

KRAUZE Piano Concerto No 1. Violin Concerto

Among the generation of Polish composers who came to prominence at the turn of the 1970s, Zygmunt Krauze (b1938) has...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2014

KHACHATURIAN Violin Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets 7 & 8

James Ehnes has released more than 30 discs since 2000, making a major mark in significant swathes of the concerto...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2014

HIND Orchestra and Chamber Music

Rolf Hind’s reputation as a pianist who ventures where others fear to tread is no less evident in his own...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2014

HENZE Symphonies Nos 2 & 10

Wergo’s cycle of Henze’s symphonies is now done, and more complete than any rival with its inclusion of the composer’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2014

ELGAR Symphony No 2

Daniel Barenboim first recorded Elgar’s great E flat Symphony with the London Philharmonic in 1972 and while the intervening four...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014

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