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HANDEL Water Music

The music that entertained George I during his trip down the River Thames from Whitehall to Chelsea on July 17,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014

FORD Salomé Fast. Comma. Chain

US-born but resident in the Netherlands these last three decades, Ron Ford has latterly been active as a recording producer...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2014

DUKAS The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Polyeucte. Cantate Velleda

Last year’s release of Debussy’s La mer and Première Suite by François-Xavier Roth and his Les Siècles orchestra proved to...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2014

Delius in Norway

While not a great lover of Delius’s music, I have thoroughly enjoyed this new, themed issue from Chandos. As Andrew...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2014

CORELLI Concerti Grossi Op 6

Corelli’s performances in Rome were sponsored by patrons such as Cardinal Ottoboni and the Marquis Ruspoli. Surviving documents such as...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014

BRUN Symphony No 1. Overture to a Jubilee Celebration

This is the fourth volume in Guild’s series devoted to (and my own first encounter with) the music of Lucerne-born...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2014

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

‘In these concerts I couldn’t make enough slowings and accelerations,’ wrote Brahms to Joseph Joachim in 1886. He was reporting...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2014

CPE BACH Keyboard Concertos H475-478

Intrepid to be sure was Miklós Spányi in 1997 when he began his project to record CPE Bach’s solo keyboard...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2014

ATTERBERG Symphonies Nos 2 & 8

As has been remarked in these pages before, Atterberg’s early Second Symphony (1911-12) is tricky to balance. Initially a Romantic...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2014

ANDRIESSEN Symphony No 2. Mascherata

Hendrik Andriessen (father of the better-known Louis) is a natural target for the attentions of CPO and the excellent Netherlands...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2014

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