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BRUCKNER Symphony Nos 1 & 7 (Poschner)
The latest releases in Capriccio’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies feature a new edition of the Seventh Symphony by Paul...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2024
BRONSART; HENSELT Piano Concertos (Paul Wee)
The Henselt Concerto has been recorded only three times previously, remarkable when you consider it was an almost de rigueur...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2024
BRITTEN Spring Symphony. Sinfonia da Requiem. The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Rattle)
For all his skill as an operatic composer and word-setter, Britten was not a natural symphonist. The two larger works...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2024
BLOCH Schelomo BRUCH Kol Nidrei DOHNÁNYI Konzertstuck
Tim Posner’s name may be new to many readers but this young British cellist’s credentials are impressive, his current hats...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas 1, 5, 6, 10 (Antje Weithaas)
Between them violinist Antje Weithaas and pianist Dénes Várjon made me question the very basis of how I, as a...
Reviewed in issue 06/2024
Euclid Quartet - Breve
Celebrating their 25th anniversary, the Euclid Quartet’s new recording showcases contrasting musical gems. All of them are favourite encores and...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2024
Lee Hinkle: Modern American Percussion Concerti
This rather attractive album highlights the virtuosity of American percussionist Lee Hinkle, principal percussionist of the 21st Century Consort (based...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2024
David Potvin: Catharsis
The debut album by David Potvin – a young, prize-winning pianist based in Montreal – reveals a strong affinity for...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 06/2024
Motion Studies
The Crossing, the sterling Philadelphia-based chamber choir, continue their exploration of social and environmental issues with ‘Motion Studies’, a vibrant...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2024
ADAMS City Noir. Fearful Symmetries. Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance (Alsop)
You wouldn’t want to be going out at night in Los Angeles after listening to Adams’s City noir. Dark, menacing...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY None but the Lonely Heart. Tchaikovsky songs staged by Christoph Loy
Necessity is the mother of invention. In the spring of 2021, Christof Loy was supposed to direct a new production...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2024
STANFORD Shamus O'Brien (Parry)
Remember when we used to be told that there was no significant British opera between Purcell and Britten? If there...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2024
ROSSINI Le Siège de Corinthe (Abbado)
Rossini’s Le siège de Corinthe, written for the Paris Opéra in 1826, was a game-changer in the history of opera....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2024
PERGOLESI Livietta e Tracollo (Mealy)
Pergolesi’s two frothy intermezzi originated as light relief between the acts of opere serie (18th-century Neapolitan audiences demanded, and got,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024
MORAVEC The Shining (Schwarz)
I saw Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining sometime in the early 1980s, had nightmares for weeks afterwards and have seen...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
BUSONI Doktor Faust (Meister)
‘World premiere on video’ announces Dynamic’s cover of this release of Busoni’s magnificent but problematic operatic masterpiece. It’s a false...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
Vaughan Williams: A Birthday Garland (Roderick Williams)
A warm welcome to this absorbing recital, curated by Roderick Williams to take on tour with pianist Susie Allan to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2024
Sacred Treasures of Venice
This classically conceived and executed recital gives us a few of the usual suspects (the two Gabrielis and Monteverdi) but...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2024
Palimpsest
It’s 30 years since the ECM label released Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble’s ‘Officium’ (10/94), whose synthesis of plainsong...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
Brindley Sherratt: Fear No More
As John Fallas puts it in his informative booklet note, ‘not many singers record their first recital album two decades...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
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