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SALONEN Works for Cello (Wilhelmina Smith; Yo-Yo Ma)

Wilhelmina Smith’s recording underlines one of the fundamental differences between these two composers born in Finland just six years apart....

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2019

WILSON Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Musical nationalism is once more a hot potato in Europe and particularly in Scotland, where certain corners of the SNP...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019

SMETANA Swedish Symphonic Poems (Svárovský)

Time was, about three decades back, that you knew what you were getting with a Naxos disc. You wouldn’t necessarily...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 (Elder)

Manchester can be an unaccommodating place in winter and the city’s own grey, off-Pennine damp hangs over this live January...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2019

The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 78 (Shelley)

By coincidence, I am reviewing this new recording of Clara Wieck Schumann’s Concerto in A minor as the city of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2019

ROSNER Orchestral Music Vol 3 (Palmer)

This is Toccata Classics’ fourth CD of music by the American Arnold Rosner (1945-2013), and I think it is the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2019

RESPIGHI Roman Trilogy (Falletta)

It’s now some 10 years since JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic gave us their first Respighi disc, a programme...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

REGER Piano Concerto (Becker)

Markus Becker’s love affair with Reger’s piano oeuvre first manifested itself on CD with the complete solo piano music, initially...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2019

NEPOMUCENO Symphony in G minor

Although virtually unknown outside his native land, Alberto Nepomuceno (1864-1920) is one of the luminaries of Brazilian music. He composed...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2019

MYSLIVEČEK Keyboard Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Clare Hammond)

Josef Mysliveček (1737 81) was 26 years old when he left his native Prague for Italy, where he studied with...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2019

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