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HAYDEN Presence/Absence

As if mindful of the reception nowadays accorded the more radical of today’s music, Björn Heller bases his booklet-note on...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: AW/2012

FRIBBINS The Moving Finger Writes

Born in 1969, Peter Fribbins is a composer very much in the tradition of Britten and Tippett, unafraid to write...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW/2012

FASCH Orchestral Works Vol. 3

A friend of Telemann and enthusiast for Vivaldi whose own music was admired by Bach, Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) has...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW/2012

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto. Symphony No 9

This was my first encounter with the Italian cellist Mario Brunello. A pupil of Antonio Janigro and joint winner of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW/2012

DUSSEK 4 Sinfonias

Small ensemble, 18-strong, big music-making; modest scoring – strings with pairs of oboes and horns – but a wide-ranging imagination...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2012

DEBUSSY Préludes

Now here’s a strange thing: Colin Matthews’s orchestrations of the two books of piano Préludes are already included on the...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW/2012

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 2 NOSKOWSKI Symphonic Poem, Op 66

Little known outside Poland, Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909) was an important figure in the musical life of his country, a conductor,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2012

BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4

An initial session with these performances confirms that among the most striking aspects of Sergiu Celibidache’s Bruckner is its tendency...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW/2012

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4

I am aware that many listeners sense an indefinable humanity in the great conducting of the past that simply isn’t...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW/2012

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

Though not wishing to start on a downer, just sample the last minute or so of the Third Symphony in...

Reviewed in issue AW/2012

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