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STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos Symphony Suite

There seems to be a trend these days for creating new orchestra-only arrangements of music from Strauss’s operas. We’ve just...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017

STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie. Tod und Verklärung

Three recordings of the Alpensinfonie have appeared within the past year, with this one from Mariss Jansons following those from...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017

SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No 1. Cello Sonatas

Plenty of recordings of the Cello Concerto No 1. Plenty of recordings of the Cello Sonata No 2. Single discs...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2017

O'REGAN A Celestial Map of the Sky

The centrepiece in this collection of recent works by Tarik O’Regan for choir and/or orchestra is A Celestial Map of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017

SKOG; NILSSON Violin Concertos

Recordings are coming thick and fast from the Swedish violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and each argues emphatically that strength of tone,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2016

MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos

What an apt coupling this is. The two composers were close friends; Medtner’s Second Concerto, completed in the summer of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2017

LIGETI Cello Concerto. Piano Concerto

György Ligeti’s 1966 Cello Concerto is meant to grow from the brink of silence, with a sustained note that gradually...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2017

IVES Orchestral Set No 2. Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

The first instalment of Andrew Davis’s Ives series (5/15), which included the First and Second Symphonies, was generally well received...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 04/2017

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 8 & 84

Harry Christophers and his Boston ensemble complete their cycle of the three ‘Times of Day’ symphonies, the three violin concertos...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04

HALVORSEN; NIELSEN Violin Concertos

So is Johan Halvorsen’s 1909 Violin Concerto – presumed destroyed until it was found in 2015 – a rediscovered masterpiece?...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017

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