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FOX Topophony

Calling a composition Topophony might suggest an emphasis on musical mathematics and acoustics. But the full title, ‘Topophony for orchestra,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2018

ELGAR Short Orchestral Works (Lloyd-Jones)

Two of the last century’s greatest symphonists, though disparately placed in so many respects, had one thing in common: both...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2018

DOVE A Brief History of Creation. Gaia Theory

Master of musical pragmatism, Jonathan Dove is also capable of thinking on a large scale – hence his settings of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018

SCHUBERT Symphony No 5 BRAHMS Serenade No 2 (Gardiner)

With an economy of means that would serve him well in years to come, the 26-year-old Brahms wrote a single,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018

BERG Violin Concerto. MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 (Nelsons)

Following a two-year interregnum, the tenure of Andris Nelsons as the 21st Kapellmeister of the Gewandhaus Orchestra was officially inaugurated...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4 (Lu)

In the world of the rebooted Leeds Piano Competition the prize means management and a recording contract. And while many...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2018

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos (Bernardini)

Anyone miffed that Zefiro’s recent Bach Orchestral Suites (4/17) didn’t contain the famous B minor work for flute and strings...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2018

Bailar Cantado; Musica Nova (Hespèron XXI)

Both these releases from Hespèrion XXI are revisitings of repertoire they have explored before, but in neither is there the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2018

Nadine Sierra: There's A Place For Us

Why does everything nowadays have to be marketed with an angle, a message? There are no more recital discs, just...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018

Requiem: The Pity of War

‘How’, Ian Bostridge asks in a booklet note for ‘Requiem: The Pity of War’, ‘might one reflect the experience and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018

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