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Hartmann Overtures. The Golden Horns.
Bodil Udsen | Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard
Having already recorded the two symphonies by Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900), Thomas Dausgaard and the Danish National RSO have...
Reviewed in issue 11/1999
Popular Works for Piano & Orchestra
Cristina Ortiz | Moshe Atzmon | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Re-emerging with Moshe Atzmon, her collaborator in Mendelssohn's five mature works for piano and orchestra (Pantheon—not submitted for review), Cristina...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1986
Korngold (The) Piano Works
Martin Jones | Richard McMahon
In the September 2004 issue, Bryce Morrison gave an enthusiastic welcome to Martin Jones’s complete Mompou cycle. It is a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2005
The Enescu Project
This might be more precisely named ‘The Enescu Octet Project’, since it was prompted by Nicolas Dautricourt’s chance discovery (in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW22
GORDON Mythologies and Mad Songs
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Dimitri Mestdag | Laurent Ben Slimane | Martyn Brabbins
Richard Strauss once suggested that Elektra should be conducted like Mendelssohn’s ‘fairy music’. And if you’ve ever wondered what such...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2024
CHOPIN Late Piano Works
Today the musical vistas in Haydn, Clementi and Mozart enabled by using Walter, Stein and Broadwood pianos seem almost a...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2018
SULLIVAN Macbeth. The Tempest. Marmion Overture
BBC Concert Orchestra | BBC Singers | Fflur Wyn | John Andrews | Mary Bevan | Simon Callow
A premiere recording of a major orchestral work by Arthur Sullivan in the year 2016? Incredibly, this generously filled set...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016
MOLIQUE Chamber Music, Vol 2
I think I have found a new friend. Immediately appealing, charming and, if not greatly original in thought or language,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018
BARGIEL Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2
My first encounter with the music of Woldemar Bargiel (1828 97) was in 1997 and Steven Isserlis’s recording of his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
BRUCKNER Study Symphony
Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra | Simone Young
New performances of Anton Bruckner’s ‘Study Symphony’ in F minor hardly grow on trees but this latest instalment of Simone...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014
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