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BRITTEN 3 String Quartets
Emperor String Quartet | Endellion Quartet
One of the most strikingly understated ways to chart the progress of Britten as a composer is to put the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2013
JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 2, 3 & 6 arr Viola
Finally, the Ukrainian viola player Maxim Rysanov has completed his collection of JS Bach’s Cello Suites transcribed for viola after...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014
DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. Hero's Song Op 111
Andris Nelsons | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Hard on the heels of Claus Peter Flor’s exceptional New World with the Malaysian PO (BIS, 2/13) comes this scarcely...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2013
VAN DER AA Up-Close
Amsterdam Sinfonietta | Candida Thompson | Sol Gabetta | Vakil Eelman
Michel van der Aa’s enterprising synthesis of sound and vision continues with a work which transcends its hybrid nature in...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue:
MARTHINSEN Snapshot Symphony
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra | Christian Lindberg | Håkan Björkman | Jörgen Van Rijen | Stefan Schulz
Niels Marthinsen’s Snapshot Symphony (2009) follows its predecessor, Monster (1995, 10/06), by 14 years and equal blithe disregard for Classical...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2012
GRANADOS; TURINA Piano Quintets
Cuarteto Quiroga | Javier Perianes
Javier Perianes here champions two chamber works by composers who hailed from Andalusia, as indeed does he. Perianes has shown...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2015
BENNETT The Glory and the Dream
Nicholas Morris | Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
What an extraordinarily versatile and accomplished figure was Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012). As both performer and composer he possessed richly...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2018
SCHNELZER Tales from Suburbia
Benjamin Shwartz | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
The Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer (b1972) attracted a modicum of attention in the UK when his Tim Burton tribute A...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW18
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Antonini)
Back in September 2010 I remarked how the Fifth and Sixth symphonies ‘really swing’ under Giovanni Antonini, and now his...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2019
Renée Fleming: Lieder
Christian Thielemann | Hartmut Höll | Munich Philharmonic Orchestra | Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming’s discography is nothing if not varied, with recent albums encompassing Broadway (12/18) as well a premiere recording of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2018
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