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KENINŠ Symphonies Nos 4 & 6 (Kuzma)

Perhaps Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919-2008) would have had a better time of it in the record catalogue had his legacy not...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2021

GABLENZ Piano Concerto PADEREWSKI Polish Fantasy (Jonathan Plowright)

Jonathan Plowright’s exploration of Polish piano music continues in this new Hyperion release of two concertante works, one by perhaps...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2021

DVORÁK; MARTINU Cello Concertos (Victor Julien-Laferrière)

Is it useful to say that a musician has a ‘Gallic’ sound? Listening to the French cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière playing...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2021

DUTILLEUX Le Loup (Wilson)

The main work on John Wilson’s new Dutilleux disc is the 1953 ballet Le loup, commissioned by Roland Petit to...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2021

DUBUGNON Klavieriana. Chamber Symphonies 1 & 2 (Noriko Ogawa)

Richard Dubugnon writes postmodern music that has a smile on its face and its tongue in its cheek. Born in...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2021

DEBUSSY Fantasie. La Mer (Martha Argerich)

Martha Argerich was clearly on fiery form when she was captured live in May 2018 in Debussy’s early Fantaisie, a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2021

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Blomstedt)

It seems that at 92, with recordings of all of the Schubert and Sibelius symphonies and two cycles each of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2. Capriccios & Intermezzos (Anna Tsybuleva)

If Anna Tsybuleva’s name rings a bell, you may recall her as winner of the 2015 Leeds Piano Competition –...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2021

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 MÉHUL Les Amazones Overture (Roth)

Initial impressions – an audaciously spread opening pair of chords – suggest a symphonie funèbre et triomphale, minus the jingling...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2021

Russian Spectacular (Singapore Symphony Orchestra)

Surely here was an opportunity to stray a little from the well-trodden path and offer perhaps Mussorgsky’s startling original version...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2021

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