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MOZART; PHIBBS Clarinet Concertos (van de Wiel)

Mark van de Wiel is principal clarinettist of the Philharmonia but here he steps out of his usual seat to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2019

MARX Romantic Piano Concerto. Castelli Romani (David Lively)

Joseph Marx is little more than a footnote today, though Naxos is trying to put that right, bringing back to...

Reviewed in issue 09/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Blomstedt)

School of Barbirolli. That was my first thought as the faltering pulse of the opening bars ushered in the warm...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2019

KABALEVSKY Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Ang)

Overshadowed by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and other luminaries of 20th-century Russian music, Dmitry Kabalevsky nevertheless composed at least one work in...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2019

HOLBROOKE Symphony No 3 (Griffiths)

Apparently ‘the cockney Wagner’ Josef Holbrooke was neither a cockney (born in Croydon, settled in Haringey) nor a Wagnerian (more...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2019

GOODYEAR Callaloo. PIano Sonata GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue

The curtain rips apart with brash glissandos, followed by syncopated bitonality that cries out ‘Busoni in Trinidad!’, only to morph...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019

ELGAR Enigma Variations HOLST The Planets (Litton)

Edward Gardner and Vasily Petrenko have been taking their Norwegian orchestras through plenty of Elgar in concert while recording the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2019

ELGAR The Spanish Lady. Organ Sonata (Yates)

It was in the late summer of 1932 that Elgar began jotting down ideas for The Spanish Lady, a ‘Grand...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2019

DEBUSSY Nocturnes etc (Shui)

The Singapore Symphony’s Debussy first impressed me with an excellent La mer under Lan Shui in an imaginatively programmed 2007...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019

CHÁVEZ Symphony No 2 COPLAND Symphony No 3 (Prieto)

These performances were recorded live at the opening concerts of The Orchestra of the Americas’ 2018 European tour. Overall, the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2019

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