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GINASTERA Harp Concerto. Guitar Sonata

This centenary tribute to the Argentine composer Alfredo Ginastera is the brainchild of harpist Yolanda Kondonassis – an act of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016

GHEDINI Music for Orchestra

Little of Giorgio Federico Ghedini’s orchestral music has appeared on disc, so Daniele Rustioni’s survey of four of his major...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016

COPLAND Appalachian Spring. Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Appalachian Spring is most frequently heard in the 1945 concert suite for full orchestra, which omits around nine minutes of...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2016

CASTELLO Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Libro I

Dario Castello has in recent years turned into one of the stars of 17th-century instrumental music, a thoroughly deserved status...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2016

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

Bruckner’s Second Symphony is arguably the most problematic of the canon in terms of textual matters. The critical edition published...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2016

BERIO Sinfonia MAHLER 10 Frühe Lieder

All the post-war masters looked to Mahler for inspiration in their own ways. To Stockhausen he was a visionary, beyond...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2016

BENNETT Old American Dances

Richard Rodgers liked to tell a story about a Broadway arranger who insisted that he was at least 50 per...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies

Born to Conduct, the title of the hour-long documentary about Philippe Jordan which is included in the new set, is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2016

STRAVINSKY The Firebird BARTÓK Piano Concerto No 3

Most LSO Live recordings rigorously eschew applause and include some remedial patching. This one has a different purpose, consciously intended...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2016

ADAMS Scheherezade.2

For most music lovers, the word Scheherazade likely conjures the plush orientalism of Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral tone-poem. John Adams’s Scheherazade.2 (2015)...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016

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