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RESPIGHI Roman Festivals. Fountains of Rome. Pines of Rome...

Respighi’s sizeable orchestral output has only latterly come into its own on disc and this release from Brilliant is announced...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 06/2012

RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances

The first movement of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances is marked Non allegro, one of those tricky indications that lets you know...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2012

RUBINSTEIN. RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos

Anton Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano Concerto is a once-popular showpiece that featured in the repertoires of pianists such as Hofmann and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012

PENDERECKI Sinfoniettas. Oboe Capriccio

Placing the earliest (1963) and most recent (1997) works together at the beginning of this programme neatly confirms that Penderecki...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2012

NØRGÅRD Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Per Nørgård’s First Violin Concerto, Helle Nacht (‘Bright Night’, 1986-87), is a beautifully crafted, illustrative suite in four movements inspired...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2012

MORTENSEN Symphony, Op 5. Per Orchestra, Op 30

A work of undeniably quality, Finn Mortensen’s only symphony (1952-53) looks, Janus-like, forwards and backwards. The low opus number and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2012

MAHLER Symphony No 7

We’ve come to expect certain qualities from this Bamberg/Nott Mahler cycle – not least real stylistic awareness and exceptional attention...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2012

MAHLER Symphony No 1 WEBERN Im Sommerwind

Any new Mahler symphony in the recording catalogue these days had better have a good reason behind it. Fortunately, François-Xavier...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 06/2012

LULLY Overtures and Airs from Phaëton, Atys and Armide

With this recording we enter a new phase of interpreting early music. Dominik Kiefer and his Capriccio colleagues approach the...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2012

LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Denis Matsuev won the 1998 Tchaikovsky Competition with a performance of Liszt’s First Concerto and has since emerged, in recital...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2012

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