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KARAYEV Seven Beauties suite. Don Quixote

While Shostakovich appeared to dominate the Russian-Soviet musical scene as observed from the West, his pupils were often more comfortable...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2017

Chrysalis

At the risk of sounding like a right old witch of a critic, I’m a fan neither of recordings with...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2017

COKE The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 73

The English composer Roger Sacheverell Coke (pronounced ‘Cook’) was born in 1912 and died in 1972. With dates like this you...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2017

BRIAN Symphonies – Nos 8, 21 & 26

This is both a milestone recording and a disc of milestones. With the issue of the 26th (1966), all 32 of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto. Piano Concerto No 3

It is rare for us to be offered the C minor Piano Concerto and the Triple Concerto on the same disc....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2017

BAX Symphony No 2. Winter Legends

Bax’s Second Symphony (1926) bears a dedication to Serge Koussevitzky, who gave the world premiere in Boston on December 13, 1929....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2017

Sonya Bach plays JS Bach

Pianist Sonya Bach writes in the booklet notes to her recording of Bach’s keyboard concertos that she performs her solo...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017

Augmented

The repertoire for wind quintet is sizeable but musicians who play in these ensembles are always on the lookout for works...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2017

WUORINEN Alphabetical Ashbery. Fourth Piano Sonata

Charles Wuorinen’s Alphabetical Ashbery consists of four poem settings arranged by title in, you guessed it, alphabetical order. Jeffrey Gavett’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 6, Tragic (Zander)

Benjamin Zander’s Philharmonia Mahler Sixth recording was riddled with tempo and texture miscalculations, skewed balances, expressive dead spots, plus generally...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017

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