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STRAUSS Burleske. Serenade. Tod und Verklarung (Franck)

Richard Strauss’s Burleske has been doing well on record of late. Denis Kozhukhin’s fine Pentatone recording from a couple of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2021

SKALKOTTAS Dance of Waves

Naxos follows its anthology ‘The Neoclassical Skalkottas’ (5/20) with one of widely divergent pieces from the mid-1930s. The 36 Greek...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2021

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos. Piano Trio No 2 (Simon Trpčeski)

Nearly a quarter of a century separates Dmitry Shostakovich’s two piano concertos. The First dates from 1933, three years prior...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2021

SCHREKER Der Geburtstag der Infantin ZEMLINSKY Die Seejungfrau

Schreker’s Der Geburtstag der Infantin, based on Oscar Wilde’s short story The Birthday of the Infanta, is most commonly heard...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2021

RAVEL Bolero. La Valse. Rapsodie espagnole. Alborada del gracioso. Pavane (Trevino)

Ravel may have lived most of his life in Paris but the Basque National Orchestra are bound to wear this...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2021

POTTER Symphony No 1 (Griffiths)

Cipriani Potter these days is just a name in dusty history books recounting Britain’s heyday as ‘Das Land ohne Musik’....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2021

NICKEL Symphony No 2 (Mitchell)

He may be best known through his sizeable output for film and television but a recent trilogy of concertos for...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2021

KENINŠ Symphonies Nos 4 & 6 (Kuzma)

Perhaps Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919-2008) would have had a better time of it in the record catalogue had his legacy not...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2021

GABLENZ Piano Concerto PADEREWSKI Polish Fantasy (Jonathan Plowright)

Jonathan Plowright’s exploration of Polish piano music continues in this new Hyperion release of two concertante works, one by perhaps...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2021

DVORÁK; MARTINU Cello Concertos (Victor Julien-Laferrière)

Is it useful to say that a musician has a ‘Gallic’ sound? Listening to the French cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière playing...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2021

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