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ABRAHAMSEN Air SØRENSON It is Pain Flowing Down Slowly

‘Nothing is determined in advance of the music of Hans Abrahamsen and Bent Sørensen,’ writes Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli in...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2016

USTVOLSKAYA Piano Concerto SILVESTROV 4 Postludes

When Alexei Lubimov recorded Ustvolskaya’s Concerto for piano, strings and timpani (1946) for a not dissimilar bran tub of shortish...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra

This recording completes a circular journey for Jennifer Koh. In 1992 the American violinist was conducted by Alexander Vedernikov in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 2. Concert Fantasy

If Tchaikovsky became the ‘uncrowned composer laureate’ of Imperial Russia, as Richard Taruskin so persuasively argues, surely the G major...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben. Macbeth

If this is disc is anything to go by, Andrés Orozco-Estrada is a fine Straussian. He negotiates his way through...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2016

STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie

Kent Nagano’s recent recording of Eine Alpensinfonie (Farao, 9/16) claimed to offer a considered, unbombastic approach to Strauss’s final, grandly...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2016

SHAW Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, Francis Shaw has enjoyed a busy career as a composer, teacher and administrator, and celebrates his...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2016

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

This disc appears almost simultaneously with Antonio Pappano’s very appealing live recordings of the same two symphonies (reviewed in the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2016

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 4 & 7

Is Valery Gergiev unchallengeable in this repertoire? He may be at something like his best in his recent Mariinsky remakes...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2016

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 4

How many times have I regretted a shortage of fantasy, flair and fairy-tale imagination in recordings of the Prokofiev piano...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2016

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