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GLIÈRE; SAINT-SAËNS; SCHUMANN Works for Horn and Orchestra

Markus Maskuniitty began his orchestral career as first horn in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. Since then, he’s served as principal...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

SCHUBERT Early Symphonies and Stage Music

Pentatone returns to Schubert’s youthful symphonic output just a matter of months after its issue of the B’Rock Orchestra’s disc...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2019

SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 2. Symphony in F (Fischer)

Why do Saint-Saëns’s youthful symphonies get such a bad rap? Even Roger Nichols apologises more than is necessary for Urbs...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

RANDS Piano Conerto (Jonathan Biss)

It’s weeks since I reviewed the last disc of orchestral music by Bernard Rands. No, I hadn’t heard of him...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2019

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. The Isle of the Dead (Jurowski)

The Isle of the Dead might be regarded as the makeweight here but it has long been a Jurowski speciality...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2019

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No 1 (van Keulen)

Having recorded Prokofiev’s complete works for violin and piano with Ronald Brautigam (Challenge Classics, 5/13), Isabelle van Keulen might have...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2019

PETTERSSON Violin Concerto No 2 (Wallin)

Michael Oliver described Pettersson’s Second Violin Concerto (1977 79) in these pages as ‘perplexing but absorbing, infuriatingly chaotic but somehow...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2019

MAHLER 'Titan', Symphony No 1 (original version)

For once the title does not deceive. Presented here is a version of the two-part, five-movement symphonic poem which Mahler...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2019

LECLAIR Violin Concertos (Leila Schayegh)

On this marvellous Leclair concerto programme Leila Schayegh plays Nos 2 and 6 from each of Leclair’s Opp 7 and...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2019

ELFMAN Violin Concerto. Piano Quartet (Sandy Cameron)

In his booklet-note introduction to these stand-alone concert works Danny Elfman asks the question so often asked, namely why it...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2019

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