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RÄIHÄLÄ Peat, Smoke and Seaweed Storm

There aren’t many classical works inspired by football – Benedict Mason’s opera Playing Away, Martinů’s Half-Time – but none hitherto...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014

PUW Orchestral Works

Among Welsh composers of the younger generation, Guto Pryderi Puw (b1971) looks likely to achieve real prominence. This disc of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 22 & 24

Angela Hewitt continues her Mozart series with Hannu Lintu, switching from her Italian orchestra to the Canadian National Arts Centre...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2014

MAHLER Symphony No 9

Michael Schønwandt’s own programme notes are candid and concise: an assignment taken at four days’ notice to replace an ailing...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2014

MACMILLAN From Ayrshire. Tuireadh. ...as others see us...

Despite its geographically Scottish title, the opening movement of From Ayrshire feels more akin to the pastoral Gloucestershire of Vaughan...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2014

GREGSON Dream Song. Horn Concerto. Aztec Dances

Edward Gregson has a formidable standing as a brass band composer, and his links with that world are writ large...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014

GOVES Just stuff people do

Although his House of Bedlam collective was behind the notable album Talking Microtonal Blues (1/14), this is the first disc...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014

GODARD Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

With Vol 63 of Hyperion’s ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series we alight upon Benjamin Godard (1849 95), the French composer remembered...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014

CHOPIN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Chopin’s two oft recorded piano concertos are here presented in the order of their composition (ie No 2 followed by...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014

BUSONI Violin Concerto STRAUSS Violin Concerto

Busoni’s Violin Concerto (1896 97), despite the success of the Second Sonata that shortly followed it, has never enjoyed much...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014

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