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GOOSSENS Orchestral Works Vol 2

The centrepiece on this new release is the latest, the Concert Piece for oboe doubling cor anglais, two harps and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2013

GLAZUNOV Violin Concerto Op 82 SCHOECK Concerto quasi fantasia Op 21

Chloë Hanslip continues here her admirable record in exploring little-known corners of the violin’s repertory. Othmar Schoeck’s Concerto of 1911...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 05/2013

FRANCK Symphony in D minor

As the D minor Symphony creeps into life and whispers its hints of those melodic fragments that are to blossom...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2013

FAURÉ;SAINT-SAËNS Violin Works

The march of technology is not always beneficial to art. This is one of those discs that a few years...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2013

DUTILLEUX Correspondances. Cello Concerto, ‘Tout un monde lointain’. The Shadows of Time

When Chandos boxed up Yan Pascal Tortelier’s Dutilleux recordings with the BBC Philharmonic in 2002 there was little extant vocal...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2013

DU GRAIN Complete Harpsichord Concertos

‘Johann Jeremias du Grain ranks among the most important 18th-century composers of Gdan´sk,’ begins the booklet-note to this release. ‘He...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2013

CARTER; CORIGLIANO Clarinet Concertos

The first recording of Corigliano’s Clarinet Concerto (1977) with Stanley Drucker and the New York Philharmonic came out on New...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 05/2013

In The Shadow of War

Back in the late 1980s, Steven Isserlis set down memorably eloquent versions of Bridge’s Oration and Bloch’s Schelomo with Richard...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2013

BERLIOZ Overtures

Of the seven spectacular overtures in this collection, three are exciting introductions for operas, one is actually part of an...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 05/2013

ULLMANN Piano Concerto Op 25 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3

An award-winning Romanian-born pianist, a promising Estonian conductor and a distinguished German ensemble come together to offer a coupling which...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2013

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