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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Future. The Steersman. Fantasia for piano and orchestra

There are now two versions of Vaughan Williams’s big-boned Fantasia for piano and orchestra (1896-1904) to choose from. Never published...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 08/2024

STRAVINSKY Symphonies Vol 1 (Slobodeniouk)

Dima Slobodeniouk has his Galician orchestra at the tip of his baton in the crisp sforzandos that punctuate the first...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2024

SAXTON Epic of Gilgamesh. The Resurrection of the Soldiers

Hard on the heels of the release of Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra’s fifth instalment (devoted to Steve...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

RIES Symphonies 1 & 2 (Nisonen)

Ferdinand Ries is better known now for his association with Beethoven. His own music is not an unknown quantity, though,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024

ORTIZ Revolución diamantina

Mexican composer Gabriela Ortíz (b1964) carries on where Carlos Chávez, Silvestre Revueltas and other mid-20th-century modernists left off – creating...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024

MOZART Symphonies Nos 34-36 (Collins)

Michael Collins and the Philharmonia here kick off their projected Mozart symphony cycle in splendid style: three joyful, extrovert works...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2024

MOZART Sinfonia Concertante. Horn Concerto No 2 (Alexandre Zanetta)

Howard Griffiths’s ‘Next Generation Mozart Soloists’ series has done sterling work in promoting young musicians and giving them valuable studio...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos K503, K505, K595

Good things come to those who wait, they say, and at last – three decades on from its inauguration –...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Vänskä)

Positives first. This is a fine-sounding Mahler Third – up there with Manfred Honeck’s Pittsburgh account in the sonic stakes...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2024

ILLEAN arcing, stilling, bending, gathering

Lise Illean was born in Australia but is now based in the UK. Her compositions draw on landscapes that are...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024

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