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BRAHMS Cello Sonatas

When Brahms played through his First Cello Sonata with its dedicatee, Josef Gänsbacher, the cellist apparently complained that he couldn’t...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016

ABRAHAMSEN Landscapes. Walden

The Ophelia of Hans Abrahamsen’s let me tell you (2013), the contemporary ‘work of the moment’, surrenders to the deadly...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2016

STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel ZEMLINSKY Die Seejungfrau

It maybe seems a bit unfair to pit Strauss’s brilliant Till Eulengspiegel against Die Seejungfrau, more of a slow-burn affair...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2016

VAN DER AA Violin Concerto. Hysteresis

Van der Aa acolytes may be surprised at the lack of a visual element in his new Violin Concerto (2014),...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2016

STOJOWSKI Violin Concerto. Romance

Bartomiej Nizio (b1974 in Poland) has a seductively silky smooth tone and a narrow vibrato, and plays with exactly the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016

STOCK Concertos

When the Pittsburgh composer David Stock died last year, aged 76, he was celebrated for the hearty contributions he had...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 08/2016

SIBELIUS Symphony No 2. Finlandia. Karelia Suite

Virtuoso conducting and immaculate orchestral playing, for sure, but there are drawbacks. Finlandia distils plenty of truculent defiance but there’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2016

SCHUMANN Complete Symphonic Works, Vol 6

With this sixth and final volume in his series of the ‘Complete Symphonic Works’, Heinz Holliger mops up the remaining...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2016

ROUSE Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic have already set down a cycle of the Nielsen symphonies together with recent...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2016

RESPIGHI Sinfonia Drammatica

Completed in June 1914, the Sinfonia drammatica is essentially an expression of Respighi’s anxieties about the impending First World War....

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2016

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