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FAGERLUND Violin Concerto. Ignite

This is BIS’s third disc devoted to the music of the Finn Sebastian Fagerlund (b1972). David Fanning was not wholly...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015

ENESCU Symphonie Concertante. Symphony No 1

There’s something very ‘pre-Shostakovich’ about the austere chord that opens the 20-year-old Enescu’s Symphonie concertante, but thereafter this lyrical outpouring...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2015

ELGAR Symphony No 1. Cockaigne

The nature of Elgar’s musical language, with its elastic tempi and, as Parry once described, expressive ‘spasms’, has often proved...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2015

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 6 & 7

Asked to nominate a single word that sums up Mariss Jansons’s approach to these particular Bruckner symphonies, it would be...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4

Here is the standard version of the Fourth which Bruckner made at his own urge after completing the Fifth and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2015

MACMILLAN; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oboe Concertos

The Britten Sinfonia’s latest offering launches with a deeply understanding performance of Vaughan Williams’s Oboe Concerto from Nicholas Daniel. It...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2015

BRAHMS Serenades

The swiftly pulsing violas and cellos that open Riccardo Chailly’s Gewandhaus Orchestra account of the First Serenade contradict what many...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2015

BIZET Roma Symphony. Overtures

Jean-Luc Tingaud’s generous Bizet selection kicks off with two rarities: both the imposing Marche funèbre in B minor from 1860...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2015

BRITTEN; BARBER Piano Concertos

In many ways the Britten and Barber piano concertos make an attractive fit, sharing a similar bittersweet lyricism, though Britten...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2015

BALADA Symphony No 6. Steel Symphony

The music of the Catalan-American composer Leonardo Balada has been well served by Naxos; this is the fifth recording of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2015

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