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GOLDMARK Symphonic Poems, Vol 1
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Fabrice Bollon
Karl Goldmark seems to be having a bit of a moment right now, and so too – to judge from...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2019
STRAUSS Violin Concerto. Miniatures (Steinbacher)
Arabella Steinbacher | Lawrence Foster | WDR Symphony Orchestra
What do you do if you’re a violinist wanting to pay homage to Richard Strauss? The composer wrote some fabulous...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2018
GODARD Violin Sonatas
Dana Ciocarlie | Nicolas Dautricourt
Benjamin Godard trained as a violinist before turning to composition. Though he soon expressed a marked preference as a performer...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016
BEETHOVEN String Quintets Opp 29 & 104. Fugue op 137
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players
It’s perhaps not surprising that Beethoven’s string quintets feature less highly in his output than do similar works by Mozart...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020
DVORÁK String Quartets 5 & 12 SUK Meditation
The Albion Quartet, formed as recently as 2016, are a group of young Brits led by Tamsin Waley-Cohen. In a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2019
STRAUSS Violin Concerto (Tasmin Little)
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Julie Price | Michael Collins | Michael McHale | Tasmin Little
The four concertante works that feature on this recording under the direction of the clarinettist and conductor Michael Collins include...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2019
(The) Wesleys and their Contemporaries
Hot on the heels of Jennifer Bate’s magnificent Somm disc of organ music by Samuel Wesley comes this companion volume,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2004
R. Strauss Salome
Strauss wanted Mendelssohn-like textures in his Salome. These Keilberth, one of the last conductors to work with the composer, provides...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1994
Alkan; Chopin Cello Sonatas
Alban Gerhardt | Alexandre Tharaud | Jean-Guihen Queyras | Steven Osborne
Alkan’s Sonata has been recorded several times before, most notably by Moray Welsh and Ronald Smith (APR), yet it has...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2008
Festmusik: A Legacy
In his fascinating booklet note essay, David Gordon-Shute, Onyx Brass’s tuba player, explains how an envelope containing a small collection...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2021
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