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New Music With Guitar Vol 9

The words ‘new music with guitar’ can strike fear into the heart of even the most intrepid musical explorer. Thankfully...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2015

The Central Band of the Royal Air Force: British Classics

It was my good fortune that the junior school I attended made a speciality of performing English folk dances, which...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2015

Romain Leleu: Trumpet Concertos

On this disc Romain Leleu and the Orchestre d’Auvergne present trumpet concertos from the second half of the 20th century...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue:

ZEMLINSKY The Mermaid

Ondine’s analytically transparent recording and John Storgårds’s measured approach bring the opulent textures of Die Seejungfrau closer to the Expressionist...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015

WIENIAWSKI Works for Violin and Orchestra

Were you hearing these three works for the first time you might be well satisfied, but they offer no competition...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015

SUCHOŇ Metamorphoses. Ballad Suite

Eugen Suchoň’s early Balladic Suite (1935) here receives its third recording that I can trace, curiously as it is the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015

SIBELIUS Symphony No 2 WAGNER Tannhäuser Overture

To launch his inaugural concert as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director, Andris Nelsons chose the Overture to Wagner’s Tannhäuser,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No 1. Preludes

After the sensibly national programming of her first disc for Universal’s Madrid-based arm, a collection entitled ‘Spanish Landscapes’, Leticia Moreno...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015

RASKATOV Piano Concerto STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring

Alexander Raskatov is probably best known for his opera based on Bulgakov’s Gogol-like tale The Heart of a Dog, which...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/2015

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5. Scythian Suite

Andrew Litton began his Prokofiev symphony cycle with a successful reading of the profound yet problematic Sixth (6/13). The Fifth...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015

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