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GODARD Symphonies No 2. Symphonie gothique

Benjamin Godard’s symphonic works met with a mixed response during his lifetime and slipped from view, like so much of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016

GILSE Piano Concerto

The Dutch composer Jan [Pieter Hendrik] van Gilse (1881 1944) is new to me, but I see that CPO with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 WAGNER Das Liebesmahl der Apostel

This is Christian Thielemann’s third recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, albeit the first on CD, the other two versions being...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2016

BRAHMS Double Concerto. Symphony No 4

Both of these performances were recorded live during Pinchas Zukerman’s final season as music director of the Orchestra du Centre...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2016

Bel canto amore mio

Various bizarre happenings surround this creditable new release: a contemporary review of unparalleled savagery from a French online source, an...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2016

Stokowski Transcriptions

Bach purists should look away now. Leopold Stokowski’s 1927 orchestration of the D minor Toccata and Fugue calls for double...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2016

MOSZKOWSKI Piano Concerto SCHULZ-EVLER Russian Rhapsody

Listening to the extended orchestral opening that launches this disc, darkness shot through with piercing piccolo, you might be hard-pressed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2016

GÁL Piano Concerto MOZART Piano Concerto No 22

If there is a happier 20th-century piano concerto than Hans Gál’s of 1948, I don’t know what it is. Playing...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2016

ELGAR Piano Quintet. Sea Pictures

It’s a brave soul who decides to reorchestrate Sea Pictures, one of Elgar’s most miraculously scored, ineffably touching and entrancingly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2016

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 SUK Serenade

Mariss Jansons’s first recording of Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony (made with the Oslo Philharmonic in 1992 for EMI) conveyed an admirable...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2016

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