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MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Chailly)

There are several distinguished accounts of this symphony in audio-visual format to which Riccardo Chailly now adds another, a souvenir...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2017

LLOYD Symphonies Nos 6 & 7

Lyrita released the first discs of George Lloyd’s symphonies on disc back in the early 1980s, with LPs of the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW17

JONES Symphonies Nos 1, 2, 10 & 11

/> In a Gramophone interview (‘Exploring the Frontiers’, 2/87), Bryden Thomson said of Daniel Jones: ‘He knows what he wants, he knows...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW17

HAGLUND Flaminis Aura

One tangible observation from the booklet note is that Tommie Haglund’s Flaminis Aura (2001/04) takes its structural inspiration from the Adagio...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17

CHISHOLM Violin Concerto. Dance Suite

Three cheers for this enterprising successor to Hyperion’s superb coupling (6/12) devoted to the two piano concertos by the Scottish progressive...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW17

CASELLA Symphony No 2

Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) composed his Second Symphony between 1908 and 1910 in Paris, where, as a 13-year-old, he had enrolled...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW17

BEN-HAIM Symphony No 2. Concerto Grosso

Once championed by the likes of Stokowski and Bernstein, Paul Ben-Haim’s music is little heard these days, making this recording...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW17

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Triple Concerto

Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is a festive work for the Christmas season, argues Thomas Albertus Irnberger in an extensive booklet note....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW17

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (Blomstedt)

When imported to the UK late in 1981, Herbert Blomstedt’s first Beethoven cycle gained further appeal through the inclusion of miniature...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW17

Stravaganza d’Amore! The Birth of Opera at the Medici Court, 1589‑1608’

This two-record set takes as its starting point the various strains of dramatic music that fed into early Florentine opera,...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: AW17

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