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TARKIAINEN Midnight Sun Variations

In some ways, Ondine’s second disc of music by Outi Tarkiainen paints the composer in a slightly different light –...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2024

SIBELIUS Symphony No 4 (Rouvali)

Sibelius’s biographer Erik Tawaststjerna (I write this on the 30th anniversary of his death) once stated that Herbert von Karajan...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2024

Lang Lang: Saint-Saëns

For The Carnival, Lang Lang is joined by his pianist wife Gina Alice. It begins splendidly with the lion loudly...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024

SAARIAHO Maan Varjot. Château de l'ame. True Fire. Offrande

The new Kaija Saariaho-funded organ at the Musiikkitalo in Helsinki has sparked a mini-revival for the composer’s organ concerto Maan...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2024

MOZART Overtures (Willens)

Discs entirely devoted to Mozart overtures are rare, with good reason. With the familiar works the ear repeatedly craves the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2024

KRAUS Overtures (Astronio)

German composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born the same year as Mozart, trained in Mannheim and worked at the culturally...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024

HELLSTENIUS Public Behaviour. Together

Looking for something to blow the musical cobwebs away? Try Henrik Hellstenius. For the past three decades, the Norwegian composer...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2024

HAYDN J &M Violin Concerto No 4; Concerto For Harpsichord & Viola

‘Slender pieces of modest charm’ is how Richard Wigmore describes the violin concertos in his indispensable Faber Pocket Guide to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024

FIRSOVA Piano Concerto (Yefim Bronfman)

Elena Firsova’s 18-minute, three-movement Piano Concerto – not to be confused with her Piano Concerto No 1 of 1985, which...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024

Mer(s): Debussy, Dukas, Cras

The concept behind Mathieu Herzog’s Appassionato would seem to me to be one of chamber music (and the mindset implicit...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2024

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