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HENZE Symphony No 7

Is it inevitable that Henze’s most orthodox symphony is destined to receive more recordings than any of his others? This...

Reviewed in issue 08/2016

HAYDN Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 11 LIGETI Piano Concerto

Shai Wosner, the Israeli-born pianist now based in New York, already has several well-received solo discs to his credit, encompassing...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016

GRANADOS Dante. Night of the Dead Man

Naxos’s centenary survey of Granados’s orchestral music continues with a second disc from the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under Pablo González,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016

SHOSTAKOVICH; GLAZUNOV Violin Concertos

Chalk and cheese – or more aptly sweet and sour – is the flavour of this Glazunov and Shostakovich concerto...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2016

FELDMAN Beckett Material

If you’re wondering, and this would be a perfectly reasonable point to raise, why an album of Morton Feldman’s music...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016

EÖTVÖS Violin Concerto No 2. Cello Concerto Grosso

Although his prominence among European composers has come about primarily through his operas, Peter Eötvös has been equally prolific in...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2016

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 6

You can’t fault the Houston Symphony for consistency. Their March release of Dvořák’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies (5/16) was both...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 08/2016

DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto. Romance

Reviewing Christian Tetzlaff’s recording of the Concerto with the Helsinki Philharmonic under John Storgårds I made reference to ‘an exceptionally...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2016

DEBUSSY; TAKEMITSU Music for Strings

Toru Takemitsu’s Nostalghia, an elegy for the great Russian film maker Andrei Tarkovsky, forms the memorable conclusion to this impressive...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2016

CZERNY; VIOTTI Piano Concertos

This is the third time Czerny’s A minor Piano Concerto has appeared in these pages in as many issues, if...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016

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