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MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Roth)

Too often ‘Spring marches in’ to Mahler’s Third with a scowl and the weight of the world already on his...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019

KARŁOWICZ Symphony in E Minor, Op. 7 'Odrodzenie'

‘Romantic-nationalist’ is the description usually applied to Mieczysław Karłowicz's only symphony; but in fact the ‘Rebirth’ of its title relates...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019

IBERT; MASSENET; SAUGUET French Music for Ballet (Järvi)

Browsing in a second-hand shop a dozen or so years ago, I found an ancient Chant du Monde LP of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019

HAYDN; VIVALDI Cello Concertos (Christoph Croisé)

This conductor-less release from Avie manages to capture something too often lost in recordings of the early cello concerto repertoire:...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2019

FINNIS The Air, Turning

Edmund Finnis (b1984) teaches composition at the Royal Academy of Music and is Composer-in-Residence with the London Contemporary Orchestra, for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Jansons)

Mariss Jansons’s recent recording of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BR Klassik, 9/18) was an impressive...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2019

MENDELSSOHN; BRITTEN Violin Concertos (Bohren)

Knowing Sebastian Bohren’s playing from his gripping recording of Hartmann’s Concerto funebre (6/17) and as leader of the superb Stradivari...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019

BRAHMS Piano Quartet (Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Martin)

Schoenberg gives the first melodic phrase of Brahms’s G minor Piano Quartet to three clarinets (the common instrument in B...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019

ARRIAGA Symphony in D minor. Overtures (Mena)

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806 26) was 13 when he composed the opera Los esclavos felices. Only the overture survives,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019

ADÈS Colette (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Thomas Adès has composed his first film score, for Colette, a biopic based on the Claudine novels by the French...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2019

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