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WEINBERG Concertinos. Symphony No 7 (Grossmann)

In 1948 Weinberg shared the fate of his fellow composers in the Soviet Union, being castigated for supposed aesthetic sins...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2023

TABAKOVA Orpheus' Comet. Earth Suite. Concertos

Recorded in September 2022 (the concluding Cello Concerto at a live concert in The Bridgewater Hall), early into Dobrinka Tabakova’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

SANTORO Symphony No 8. Cello Concerto (Marina Martins)

This entry in Naxos’s survey of Claudio Santoro’s symphonies and orchestral music brings us to the 1960s and the Brazilian...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2023

RESPIGHI Feste Romane. Fontane di Roma. Pini di Roma (Treviño)

Respighi’s obsession with the ‘Eternal City’ is writ spectacularly large in his three symphonic evocations and maybe in some subliminal...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2023

RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé (Wilson)

French music has long featured prominently in John Wilson’s game plan. His previous all-Ravel miscellany won plaudits, notwithstanding a curiously...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2023

NORGARD Symphony No 8 (Storgards)

Sakari Oramo may have made the first recording of Per Nørgård’s Symphony No 8 with the Vienna Philharmonic – and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2023

MOZART Piano Concertos, Vol 8 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

As we reach Vol 8 of Bavouzet’s compelling series, we focus on the last three years of Mozart’s life (though...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2023

MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Bychkov)

Semyon Bychkov’s Mahler series, the first from a Czech orchestra in 40 years, is tackling the symphonies in no particular...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2023

HAYDN Paris Symphonies. Violin Concerto No 1 (Théotime Langlois de Swarte)

The Masonic Concert de la Loge Olympique that premiered these splendid works in 1787 comprised some 60 players, flamboyantly attired...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2023

'Scotland'

The most significant item in this Scottish-themed collection is Helen Grime’s two-movement Elegiac Inflections for double wind quintet, commissioned by...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2023

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