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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 1 & 15

Mark Wigglesworth has an excellent nose for this music. His cycle of the symphonies – split between Wales and the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2014

SCHUMANN Symphonies 1 - 4

Lucky old Schumann. Proving a point I made some time ago – that Schumann is truly a musician’s composer –...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2014

PANUFNIK Symphony No 9. Bassoon Concerto

Marking the centenary of Sir Andrzej Panufnik’s birth, these recordings, originally made by the BBC in 1987, offer a double...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2014

O'CONNELL North. Four Orchestral Pieces. The Symphony

Kevin O’Connell (b1958) is a Northern Irish composer, resident since 1997 in Dublin. The three orchestral works gathered here date...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014

RAVEL Ma Mère L'oye MUSSORGSKY Pictures at and Exhibition

As in Anima Eterna’s previous releases, it is the woodwind and brass that immediately make a distinctive, mellow impact on...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 18 & 22

In a letter to his daughter Nannerl, Leopold Mozart expressed his pleasure at the interplay of the various instruments after...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 14 & 27

Ingrid Jacoby pairs two of Mozart’s most delectable concertos on her new disc, which is rounded out with the early...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2014

MARTTINEN Violin and Piano Concertos

Tauno Marttinen (1912-2008) was born when Finland was still a Russian Imperial Grand Duchy; he died two months short of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014

KRAUZE Piano Concerto No 1. Violin Concerto

Among the generation of Polish composers who came to prominence at the turn of the 1970s, Zygmunt Krauze (b1938) has...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2014

KHACHATURIAN Violin Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets 7 & 8

James Ehnes has released more than 30 discs since 2000, making a major mark in significant swathes of the concerto...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2014

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