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MATTHEWS Vespers. Symphony No 7

Commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic, David Matthews’s Seventh Symphony of 2008 09 is a richly inspired, urgently communicative 20-minute canvas...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2014

MANSURIAN Quasi parlando

ECM’s fourth release devoted to Tigran Mansurian (75 this year) focuses on his concertante music for string orchestra from the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2014

LINKOLA Piano Concerto No 1 MATVEJEFF Cello Concerto. Ad Astra

Where many composers are wary of revealing the detailed programmes behind their works, Jukka Linkola (b1955) must be unique in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014

KLETZKI Violin Concerto SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No 2

Paul Kletzki enjoyed a burgeoning career as a composer and conductor in 1920s Berlin. His 1928 Violin Concerto was widely...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2014

HOSOKAWA Horn Concerto. Piano Concerto. Chant

A long sustained note, passing imperceptibly to the horn around 1'20", and surrounded by distant percussion, puts us firmly in...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2014

HARTMANN Symphonies Nos 1-8

Why a cycle of Karl Amadeus Hartmann symphonies led by six different conductors? Challenge Classics reveals surprisingly little about the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2014

GLIÈRE Symphony No 3

There have now been something near 20 recordings of Ilya Muromets, a symphony once popular largely through Stokowski’s championship of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/2014

GÁL Symphony No 1 SCHUMANN Symphony No 1

Time was there were no Gál symphonies in the catalogue (indeed, precious little of his music at all), yet with...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8. String Quartet No 12

In the case of the Eighth Symphony, initial impressions are wholly favourable and for the most part firmly substantiated by...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014

DVOŘÁK; SCHUMANN Cello Concertos

Pablo Ferrández launches his performance of the Schumann Cello Concerto with an unusual degree of diffidence and introspection. On first...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014

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