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DOHNÁNYI Tante Simona. American Rhapsody. Suite WEINER Serenade

Talk about coincidental musical similarities. The opening of the overture to Dohnányi’s one-act opera buffa Tante Simona (1911 12) is...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2021

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 2. Four Scherzos (Seong-Jin Cho)

My immediate reaction to the opening track – the first of the Four Scherzos – was ‘fast, furious, fantastic fingers,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Mena)

This recording was made under studio conditions a month before Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic performed the symphony at...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2021

BOËLLMANN Symphony. Variations Symphoniques. Quatre Pièces Brèves

Léon Boëllmann’s Suite gothique has long been a staple of the organ repertoire and a number of his chamber works...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2021

BEETHOVEN Overtures. Wellington's Victory (Bosch)

Past a sonorous first chord, the rhetorically moulded opening to Egmont may take the unwary listener by surprise, but the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2021

ANDRÉ Musica Viva

Mark Andre (b1964) waited a long time before composing his first string quartet, iv 13 (Miniaturen). A clear reference is...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 10/2021

Igot Levit: On DSCH

Here I am again – three Recordings of the Month in a mere six months – though it’s not because...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2021

Elisabeth Remy Johnson: Quest

Inspired by her quest to include more music by women in her performances, Elisabeth Remy Johnson’s recital serves as a...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2021

Last Song (Una Sveinbjarnardottir)

The ‘Last Song before the News’, reflected in composer-violinist Una Sveinbjarnardóttir’s eponymous final track, is an Icelandic tradition, the playing...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2021

KYR 'In Praise of Music'

The Antioch Chamber Ensemble recorded these choral works by Robert Kyr in November 2018 but the texts – many by...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2021

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