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PROKOFIEV Symphony No 3. Scythian Suite

Prokofiev, who never liked playing second fiddle to anyone, must have been piqued by Shostakovich’s Soviet celebrity. But could the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015

MÜTHEL Five Keyboard Concertos

‘Who was Johann Gottfried Müthel?’ asks the booklet-note, with good reason. For some his name might strike a faint bell...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 15 & 16

A pianist of prodigious technique, a musician of unpredictable temperament: such is the dichotomy of Ronald Brautigam. And it isn’t...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 1

Mendelssohn’s early one-act comic opera Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (usually translated as ‘Son and Stranger’) had, I thought, entirely...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015

MARTINU Rhapsody-Concerto. Viola Sonata

The viola player Maxim Rysanov is the star attraction in this collection of music from Martinů’s last years, during which...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 4

There are numerous ways to tackle Mahler’s piece of premature neo-classicism in an age which has seen more recordings of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015

KANCHELI Mourned by the Wind. Symphonies Nos 4-6

Giya Kancheli may not be the first name that springs to mind when charting the development of the symphony during...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2015

HOWELLS; CORP Cello Concertos

Herbert Howells made initial sketches for a cello concerto in 1933 but it was the tragic death in 1935 of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015

GORDON Dystopia. Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

Best known for his work with ensembles (not least in Bang on a Can), Michael Gordon is no slouch when...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2015

GALLAGHER Symphony No 2

Born in Brooklyn in 1947, Jack Gallagher studied composition, counterpoint and orchestration with Elie Siegmeister (1909 91). In his booklet-note...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2015

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