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The works on this latest disc in the Hanover Band's evolving cycle (now approaching the halfway mark) show Haydn's symphonic style c. 1770 at its furthest extremes. Nos. 48 and 50 belong to a line of glittering, extrovert C major symphonies, with high horns and, in No. 50, trumpets and timpani...

The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra has always devoted much of its time to supporting Welsh composers and musicians (if only English orchestras would do the same in such a consistent manner). Alun Hoddinott has enjoyed a long association with the orchestra throughout his time as Professor of Music...

WAXMAN. Sinfonietta. Berlin Symphony Orches- tra I Isaiah Jackson. Koch International Classics CD CD 37152-2(65 minutes: DDD).

It is good to see the Cello Concerto on CD at last though it is puzzling that a work of this quality has not been taken up more widely. It is a work of some substance and individuality. The performance emanates from the Danish Radio premiCre in 1975; Bløndal Bengtsson played it as a Prom four...

Suite for String Orchestra. Concerto for Strings. Elegy for Viola, String Quartet and String Orchestra. Serenade for String Orchestra.

A disc which proves (perhaps unintentionally) how unfair it is that d'Indy should be known primarily for his Symphonic sur un chant montagnard francais (Symphonic évenole). This is a CD premiere for the three-movement Symphony Jour d'étC Li la montagne; a work that suggests deeper levels of...