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TALBOT Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Fool's Paradise

Fool’s Paradise, for string orchestra, evolved from a piano trio by Joby Talbot about which we are told relatively little...

Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 07/2013

SVENDSEN Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Symphony No 1

The Chandos/Järvi/Svendsen survey moves backwards to the late 1860s and early 1870s, when the newly Leipzig-graduated composer was travelling Europe...

Reviewed in issue 07/2013

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8

So much in the opening paragraph of Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony mirrors the Fifth: only it’s the dark side of the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2013

SCHUBERT Symphony No 6

The Sixth is the most egregious of Schubert’s eight symphonies. With an opening movement which could pass muster as one...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2013

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Symphonic Dances Op 45

The 2009 release of the Second Symphony was a reminder of Leonard Slatkin’s sympathy for Rachmaninov’s music and its emotional...

Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013

MAHLER Symphony No 6

For the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, which launched its own label recently with Mahler’s perhaps too-often recorded First Symphony (4/13), a...

Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: 07/2013

MAHLER Symphony No 4 DEBUSSY Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune

Just when you thought that last season’s Mahler centenary had exhausted the possibilities of new recruits to the late Romantics,...

Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: 07/2013

KALABIS Symphonies Nos 2 & 3. Concertos

Sadly, even the name, let alone the music, of Viktor Kalabis (1923-2006) will be unknown to most readers, yet he...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2013

HOLMBOE Concertos & Chamber Music

Holmboe’s reputation may rest ultimately on his symphonies and string quartets but he was prolific in a vast array of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2013

HESKETH Wunderkammer (konzert)

Titling this disc ‘Wunderkammer(konzert)’, with a Joseph Cornell collection of miniature found objects as cover image, flags up Kenneth Hesketh’s...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2013

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