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BRAHMS; SEGERSTAM Symphonies (Segerstam)

Aside from having a title like a complicated computer password (ulFSöDErBlom in Memoriam), Leif Segerstam’s 23 minute Symphony No 295...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2019

BRAHMS Symphony No 3 DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 (Hrůša)

I wasn’t all that enthused by the initial instalment in this series, a pairing of Brahms’s Fourth and Dvořák’s Ninth...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2019

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Runnicles)

A late and grand maestro sat in his dressing room, the story goes, after giving his all to another Ninth....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019

Quadrants Vol 3

The third volume in Navona’s enterprising ‘Quadrants’ recordings of new music for string quartet gives voice to an intriguingly conservative...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2019

Clarinet Classics at Riversdale (Robert DiLutis)

Sometimes, not as often as I would like, one listens to a new disc and knows from the very first...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019

ZINK The Cloud of Unknowing: Explorations in Chamber Music

The title of this disc of chamber music for strings by Canadian-born Steve Zink, ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’, is curiously...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019

K SMITH The Arc in the Sky

Kile Smith describes his The Arc in the Sky as a ‘65-minute pilgrimage for unaccompanied choir’, and, he might have...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2019

DEAK Symphonic Tales

Narrators, like humour, are notoriously difficult to integrate into musical works. For every successful endeavour – Schoenberg rather had the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019

DE CROES La Sonate Égarée

This is so delicious that it’s tempting simply to suggest that you go and buy it. But of course I’ll...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY; PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos (Haochen Zhang)

This is not an obvious concerto coupling; but in fact there are at least three others, two of them quite...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2019

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