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BEETHOVEN Rondino. Wind Octet MOZART Serenade (MIB Ensemble)
Don’t be fooled by the opus number. Beethoven’s Octet for pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns is one of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
BEETHOVEN; BRAHMS; GAL 'Auftakt' (Trio Vision)
As Hans Gál told it, a busker named Ungrad frequented the wine gardens of fin de siècle Vienna, and for...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2022
'Beethoven for Three' Symphonies Nos 2 & 5
Ferdinand Ries’s arrangement for piano trio of Beethoven’s Second Symphony was published in 1805, a year after the publication of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022
Edgar Moreau: Transmission
The cello as cantor. And for Edgar Moreau the incantations plainly run deep. The ‘Transmission’ of the title goes from...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2022
British Music for Strings, Vol 3 (Bostock)
This latest volume of British string music from Douglas Bostock and his 14 players in the South West German Chamber...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2022
TROTIGNON 'Anima'
For those unfamiliar with his name, Baptiste Trotignon emerged during the first decade of this century as one of the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2022
RAVEL Orchestral Works (Wilson)
John Wilson is on a mission to bring his restorative ear to bear on Ravel’s orchestral catalogue, so expect more...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2022
MOZART; STRAUSS Oboe Concertos (Cristina Gómez Godoy)
The Spanish oboist Cristina Gómez Godoy (b1990) was a member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra for many years, as well...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
MOZART Symphonies Nos 38 & 39 (Manze)
Andrew Manze follows up his live Hanover recordings of Symphonies Nos 40 and 41 (4/19) with their two numerical predecessors,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
MOSZKOWSKI Orchestral music Vol 3 (Hobson)
André Previn once said to me that ‘just because a composer likes to write a sound that ravishes the ear...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
MARTINAITIS Seasons and Serenades - Works For String Orchestra
Lithuania’s senior composers are little heard outside their Baltic environs – not least Algirdas Martinaitis (b1950), whose music has not...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2022
ĶENIÑŠ Symphonies Nos 5 & 8. Aria (Poga)
After his Fourth and Sixth Symphonies from Ondine and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, here we have the Fifth and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022
ENESCU Violin Concerto. Phantasy For Piano & Orchestra (Ruzicka)
Here we have two fascinating early works by Enescu not previously recorded. Enescu was already a graduate of the Vienna...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2022
ELIASSON Symphonies Nos 3 & 4. Trombone Concerto (Christian Lindberg)
Rather like Per Nørgård in Denmark, Anders Eliasson spent much of his career in Sweden pursuing and researching a compositional...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022
DOHNÁNYI Concertos; Variations on a Nursery Song
Spoiler alert. If you don’t know the opening three or four minutes of Variations on a Nursery Theme, skip this...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
BRIAN Symphonies Nos 3 & 17 (Pope)
There is a good case for considering Havergal Brian’s Third Symphony (1931 32) his first symphonic masterpiece. Beautifully balanced, dramatic...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
BRAHMS; SCHUMANN 'Lyrical Echoes'
This is the second volume in a series exploring, as Alexander Shelley puts it, ‘the closely intertwined personal and artistic...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Furtwängler)
Wilhelm Furtwängler’s way with Beethoven’s Choral Symphony approximates a shared ritual. It is quite literally spellbinding, whether in the slowly...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2022
AUCOIN 'Orphic Moments'
Not long turned 30, Massachusetts-born composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin is easily (perhaps too easily) pigeonholed as the Thomas Adès of his...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2022
LECLAIR; LOCATELLI; VIVALDI Violin Concertos (Théotime Langlois de Swarte)
I’ll start by getting all the bad things about this album out of the way. We are told that Théotime...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022
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