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DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto (Enrico Dindo)

It was impossible not to be intrigued when this one appeared on my desk. Dvořák’s mighty Cello Concerto – an...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2023

FRANCK Symphony in D Minor. Rédemption. Le chasseur maudit (Altinoglu)

Having been somewhat neglected in recent decades, Franck’s once-popular Symphony in D minor appears to be enjoying something of a...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 12 & 15 (Storgårds)

A very revealing coupling from Storgårds. The question is often asked why it is that the predecessor to the Twelfth...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023

WENNÄKOSKI Sigla. Flounce. Sedecim

In October 2015 Ondine’s founder, Reijo Kiilunen – in conversation with Andrew Mellor – singled out Lotta Wennäkoski (b1970) as...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Sinfonia antartica. Symphony No 9 (Brabbins)

Martyn Brabbins rounds off his Vaughan Williams symphony cycle for Hyperion with a most impressive account of the Ninth. His...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2023

STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto & Chamber Works (Isabelle Faust)

So this is the Stravinsky Violin Concerto I have so often seen on the page but rarely heard in performance....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023

SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy. Symphony No 2 (Falletta)

It doesn’t at all surprise me that Scriabin once thought of calling his Poem of Ecstasy ‘Poème orgiaque’ or ‘Orgiastic...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 (Noseda )

Over a concentrated few days in May 2004, Valery Gergiev conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in an incendiary Prokofiev symphony...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2023

PALUMBO Woven Lights

If Italian new music seems a rather less adventurous place now than in previous decades, the emergence of composers such...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023

LEVANON; MARTIN; POULENC; SHOSTAKOVICH Works For Pianos and Orchestra

MultiPiano Ensemble’s new album features new arrangements of works by Martin and Shostakovich approved by the composers’ families as well...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023

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