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BERNSTEIN; GÁL; KAMINSKI Violin Concertos (Erez Ofer)

Hans Gál’s Concertino for violin and string orchestra (1939) was one of the first works he composed in Britain following...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019

BERMEL Migrations

The CV of Derek Bermel (b1967) is as varied and colourful as his music. A clarinettist as well as a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 STRAUSS Metamorphosen (Salonen)

The intriguingly named Sinfonia Grange au Lac (literally ‘The Barn on the Lake’) bows in here under its first mentor...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2019

BEETHOVEN Egmont (Häkkinen)

Beethoven wrote the incidental music to Egmont while in the process of transforming Leonore (1805 06) into Fidelio (1814) and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2019

RUNESTAD The Hope of Loving

‘To be calm, to be serene!’ writes Henry David Thoreau at the end of his poem ‘Reflections’, the first text...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW2019

RACHMANINOV Piano Trios (Hermitage Piano Trio)

Rachmaninov’s piano trios have been extremely lucky on disc, with dozens of world-class versions (both sonically and interpretatively speaking) from...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2019

LOCKLAIR Symphony No 2

A native of North Carolina, Dan Locklair (b1949) celebrates his 70th birthday this year, and celebratory is the word that...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019

HUTTER Secular Choral Music

Gregory Hutter wrote these 10 songs for chorus during what he described as ‘a challenging creative period’. But while each...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW2019

BRANDMAN Sensations

The Australian composer Margaret Brandman (b1951) graduated from both the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Sydney University. Her CV also...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019

MACHAUT The Single Rose

David Fallows called them a ‘dream team’ (11/13), Fabrice Fitch described their fourth Machaut album in this series as ‘one...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2019

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