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DVORAK; DYAKOV; FALL Piano Trios (Trio Imàge)

You’ve probably come across Leo Fall of operetta fame, maybe even his younger brother Richard, who did some scoring in...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2021

The Taste of this Nation

UK-based baroque ensemble Spiritato say one of their main aims is ‘to promote forgotten composers and bring their music to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2021

BEETHOVEN Sonatas for Piano and Violin Vol 1 (Michael Foyle)

Recording Beethoven’s complete violin sonatas in Mechelen, the home of Beethoven’s forebears, during a period of near-global isolation revealed to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2021

Beethoven Recomposed

Don’t let this album’s title put you off; nothing is ‘recomposed’ here. Rather, these are quite faithful arrangements for string...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2021

Occurrence - ISO Project Vol 3

‘Recurrence’, ‘Concurrence’ (3/20) and now ‘Occurrence’. The Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s three-disc survey of new orchestral music from its homeland has...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2021

YIU The World Was Once All Miracle

Now in his late forties, Raymond Yiu has gradually become known as a composer during the past decade. Born in...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2021

TAVENER Palintropos M STEWART Beyond Time and Space

One could be forgiven for thinking after the first minute or so that Tavener’s Palintropos, for piano and orchestra, was...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2021

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 9 & 10 (Noseda)

Gianandrea Noseda continues his idiomatic-sounding LSO Shostakovich cycle with another generous pairing. Conventionally paced, the Ninth’s opening Allegro retains a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2021

MARTINAITYTE Saudade

The large-scale ensemble project In Search of Lost Beauty … (Starkland, 4/19) alerted many listeners to the intricately alluring sonic...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2021

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Hrůša)

Not for the first time the music industry has had to adapt to new socio-economic realities and I half expected...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2021

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