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SCARLATTI Opera Overtures and Concertos

Alessandro Scarlatti is reputed to have written about 70 operas, so five sinfonias from works written for Naples between 1689...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2017

RUDERS Symphony No 5

The premiere recording of Poul Ruders’s Fifth Symphony, completed in 2013 and premiered in 2015 by the Danish National Radio...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017

RUDERS Symphony No 5

The premiere recording of Poul Ruders’s Fifth Symphony, completed in 2013 and premiered in 2015 by the Danish National Radio...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017

RAVEL Daphnis e Chloé. Une barque sur l'océan

Naxos has done well by Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, with a handful of recordings of his symphonie chorégraphique in the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017

NIXON Concert Overture No 3. Palamon and Arcite

Born in Kennington, south London, Henry Cotter Nixon (1842-1907) studied privately with Henry Smart, Charles Steggall and George Alexander Macfarren....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017

MOZART Concerto for Flute and Harp. Flute Concerto No 1

‘Of course Mozart loved the flute!’ declares Philippe Bernold in his booklet-notes, tackling head-on a tired and frustrated Mozart’s notorious...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

LUTOSŁAWSKI Cello Concerto. Symphony No 4

I’m not going to beat around the bush: the reason to hear this recording – and hear it you should...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017

LALO Symphonie espagnole TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto

Two violin concertos – Tchaikovsky’s and Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole – show very different sides of Augustin Hadelich. Recorded in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017

KROMMER Symphonies Nos 1-3

Like Clementi and Cherubini, Franz Krommer (1759-1831) was a contemporary of Mozart who outlived Beethoven and Schubert. By the time...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2017

JIRÁNEK Concertos

You might have heard of František Jiránek, the Czech violinist and composer who was born in 1698 on a Czech...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2017

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