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BUSH Symphony No 2. Africa. Fantasia on Soviet Themes

Commissioned to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the City of Nottingham, the Second of Alan Bush’s four...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6

I am no sceptic where the filming of concerts is concerned. Given a meticulously prepared shooting script by a director...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2014

BRUCKNER Study Symphony. Symphony No 0

When I opened the CD case for this useful coupling of Bruckner’s two ‘nullified’ symphonies I fully expected to find...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2

Arrangements such as this exceptionally skilful chamber reworking of Bruckner’s Second Symphony by Anthony Payne were meat and potatoes to...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto BRUCH Scottish Fantasy

Ning Feng’s account of the Tchaikovsky is notably elegant. The fast, high passages sound wonderfully clear and pure, and the...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2014

BRITTEN Symphony for Cello and Orchestra. Sonata for Cello and Piano

We are not lacking top-drawer versions of these two probing, Rostropovich-inspired masterpieces, not least from the great cellist himself on...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2014

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2

Those who admire the intelligent, direct and stylishly lean virtuosity that Maurizio Pollini has long brought to Brahms’s Second Concerto...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2014

BEPPE Remote Galaxy

The composer formerly known as Fred Jonny Berg here releases his second collaboration with the Philharmonia, Ashkenazy and flautist Emily...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2014

BAX Symphony in F

It is often the case that the first symphonic essay of any aspiring composer tends to be long. Nevertheless, Bax’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2014

AHO Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra. Symphony No 15

This recording of Aho’s 15th, and I think still latest, Symphony has been a while coming – the concert premiere,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2014

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