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Concertante: Virtuosic Wind Concertos

The subtitle of this enterprising release by rights should be ‘Virtuoso Wind Double Concertos’, since three of the four works...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

WILLIAMSON Complete Piano Concertos

Once riding on a wave of popularity, Malcolm Williamson (1931-2003, Australian born but resident in London for the major part...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014

TÜÜR Symphony No 7. Piano Concerto

Of all symphonists active in this century, few have impressed me as strongly as the Estonian Erkki-Sven Tüür. I say...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2014

SCHUMANN Symphonies 1-4

Yannick Nézet-Séguin here offers true ‘Schumann-lite’ in performances that pay close attention to detail but don’t stint on personality. What...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2014

SCHUMANN 'Zwickauer' Symphony. Overtures

Frank Beermann and his Chemnitz-based Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie have already given us their namesake’s symphonies in lithe and sweet-centred readings (12/10), and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2014

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 3 - 5

Images of urbane Schubert disappear at the opening fortissimo chord of No 3. Thomas Dausgaard’s fairly swift-moving introduction is neither...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2014

RÓZSA Film Music

Miklós Rózsa’s name is so indelibly linked to historical widescreen epics such as Ben Hur (1959) that it’s a pleasure...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2014

RAFF Symphony No 5. Abends. Dame Kobold

Volume 2 in Neeme Järvi’s Raff series for Chandos brings the Fifth (and best-known) of the prolific Swiss-German composer’s 11...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2014

PFITZNER Cello Concertos

Though billed as the fourth volume of Hyperion’s ‘The Romantic Cello Concerto’, most of the music on this disc was...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2014

PETTERSSON Symphony No 9

This disc is a revelation. I have long been an admirer of Pettersson’s music, particular the symphonies from the 1960s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

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