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ENESCU Symphonies Nos 1 - 3. Romanian Rhapsodies Nos 1 & 2 (Măcelaru)

Enescu’s three numbered symphonies were composed between 1905 and 1918 and, although demonstrating an eclectic range of influences, reflect the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2024

ELGAR Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Elder)

Currently enjoying his 24th and final season as music director of the Hallé, Mark Elder has already given us painstakingly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024

ELCOCK Symphony No 8. Violin Concerto (Zoe Beyers)

The fifth release in Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra’s groundbreaking ‘21st Century Symphony Project’ focuses on Steve Elcock...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Hrůša)

It used to irk me when young pianists chose to include Beethoven’s last piano sonata in their debut recordings. It...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 5 (Shani)

Lahav Shani’s recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony was warmly welcomed by Richard Osborne in these pages last year (8/23), and...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2024

Earth, Sea, Air: British Music for Cello and Orchestra (Laura van der Heijden)

If one were asked to sum up young British cellist Laura van der Heijden’s career to date, then beyond its...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto

Few concertos establish a more vivid sense of anticipation than Beethoven does at the start of his Triple Concerto, a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2024

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 'Eroica'. Coriolan (Fischer)

After the heroic first movement and the tragic second, writes Iván Fischer in a brief foreword to this new Budapest...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2024

Young & Foolish: Mozart & CPE Bach

A ‘very singular double concerto’ is how Richard Bratby described CPE Bach’s work for two keyboards in an interview in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2024

Bertrand Chamayou 'Cage2'

It’s over 30 years since Cage’s death in 1992, yet opinions remain divided about the American composer’s music and his...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2024

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