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LIDSTRÖM Rigoletto Fantasy SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No 1

Mats Lidström’s Rigoletto Fantasy (2009) was inspired by hearing his violinist classmates at the Juilliard School argue the relative merits...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018

IVANOVS Symphony No 5 KARLSONS 1945

The year 1940 was a dramatic one for Latvia. The country was overtaken by the Soviets, then the Nazis, then...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018

GERSHWIN; RAVEL Piano Concertos (Kozhukhin)

Like many of the young musicians of the post-Soviet diaspora, Denis Kozhukhin naturally sought out Russian teachers in the West,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2018

FAGERLUND Stonework

Sebastian Fagerlund’s residency at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam culminated in April with the third part of his orchestral trilogy in...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2018

GRIEG; DELIUS Piano Concertos (Bebbington)

Concertos by Grieg and Delius form the twin pillars of Mark Bebbington’s new Somm release in collaboration with the Royal...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2018

DEBUSSY La Mer. Le Martyre De Saint Sébastien

Yet another La mer rich in detail (there have been quite a few of late), the ppp timps at the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2018

DAVIS Liberty

Oliver Davis is a lucky man. He enjoys the freedom to write whatever he wishes and has released a new...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2018

BUENE Violin Concerto WALLIN Under City Skin

Norwegian contemporary music often gets overlooked (at least in the UK) next to that from other Scandinavian countries, so this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Nelsons)

There was a time when collectors must have thought that the sublime outpouring of grace and goodwill that is Bruckner’s...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 3 (Schaller)

Gerd Schaller has made something of a speciality of performing rarely heard or forgotten Bruckner scores. This new recording of...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2018

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