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    Neglected symphonies: Miloslav Kabeláč – Symphony No. 2

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    The second of Czech composer Miloslav Kabeláč‘s eight symphonies has come out in a new recording by the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jakub Hrůša. i got to know his symphonies a few years ago, in the excellent Supraphon box set, and found him to be a curiously inconsistent …

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    Neglected symphonies: Elsa Barraine – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

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    One of my biggest classical music bêtes noires is the way so much significant music is allowed to be forgotten, with concert programmers snoozing on their laurels as they serve up yet another reheated season of the same old, same old. That’s especially the case where symphonies – and, more …

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    (Un-)broken hearts and harmonies

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    Lido, Berlin: The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble / The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation

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    Seismograf Playlist

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    Tormis 95; Olev Muska

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    Miguel Azguime – Listening to the Earth

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    Aggregate – new works for automated pipe organs

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    Grażyna Bacewicz – Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

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    FRUM – Whirlpool

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    Alex Paxton – Delicious

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    World New Music Days 2025, Portugal (Part 4)

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    World New Music Days 2025, Portugal (Part 3)

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    Know thyself: Turangalîla and me

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    Formuls – Disorder as a function of time (from Graz to Holycross); Obsession as a function of time (inertia)

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    World New Music Days 2025, Portugal (Part 2)

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    Toivo Tulev – Dawn, Almost Dawn

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