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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending (Jennifer Pike)

Top billing on Naxos’s cover goes to The Lark Ascending but the main interest for RVW aficionados surrounds the first...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2017

TISHCHENKO Symphony No 8. Concerto for Violin and Piano

Boris Tishchenko’s last numbered symphony, composed two years before his death in 2010 (a ninth was left unfinished), is a...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 4-6

In a foreword to the booklet-notes for this new BIS release, superstar trombonist and composer turned conductor Christian Lindberg writes...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2017

STRAVINSKY The Firebird NIKOLAEV The Sinewaveland

Ludovic Morlot has garnered great reviews with the Seattle Symphony and it’s clear to hear why in a fine, purposeful...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017

SMETANA Má Vlast

In a market crammed with recordings of Má vlast – several as historically significant as they are musically penetrating –...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos

Although not trumpeted anywhere on the sleeve, the booklet-notes claim Linus Roth’s recording as ‘the original echt Tchaikovsky version’ of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Of this pairing of Shostakovich’s two violin concertos, it is Frank Peter Zimmermann’s performance of the First which will raise...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017

SCHUMANN Cello Concerto. Symphony No 2

The album’s title implies some form of pioneering research but in fact indicates that Jan Vogler, Intendant of the Dresden...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2017

SCHULHOFF Forbidden Music

Erwin Schulhoff’s Second Piano Concerto of 1923 is a strange beast, opening among chiming solo figurations, with woodwinds intoning above...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

REGER Violin Concerto

This is a fascinating slant on an effective arrangement, though the unhelpfully reverberant recording rather mitigates against total enjoyment. In...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

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