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KANDER Hermestänze. Solo Sonata. A Garden’s Time Piece
Jacob Ashworth | Jessica Petrus | Lee Dionne
All three of Susan Kander’s works on this new MSR Classics release have personal ties, even beyond the fact that...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2017
OPAŁKA Emerge
As both the recording’s title and the subtitle of one of its works suggest, ‘Emerge’ also appropriately signals the arrival...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2017
LINDBERG Cello Concerto No 2
Anssi Karttunen | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Hannu Lintu
The most significant piece here – in scale and ambition if not duration – is Era, written for the Royal...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2016
BAKER Piano Concerto. Aus Schwanengesang
Gilbert Varga | Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra | Juanjo Mena
Here are two substantial works by the Bloomington-based composer Claude Baker (b1948), whose Piano Concerto (2010), written to celebrate the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2018
PENDER Music for Woodwinds
Florida-born, DC-resident Scott Pender (b1959) is nothing if not a composer for the recording age. And a prolific one, at...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2018
Tine Thing Helseth: Seraph
Ensemble Allegria | Tine Thing Helseth
Tine Thing Helseth’s new album marries a number of works by contemporary composers for trumpet and string orchestra with several...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2023
ARNESEN Holy Spirit Mass
Mona Spigseth | Sofi Jeannin | Trondheim Soloists | Trondheim Vocal Ensemble
For several decades the North American choral scene has been an important market for British composers such as Rutter, Carter,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2021
JS BACH Double and Triple Concertos
Accademia Bizantina | Brecon Baroque | Ottavio Dantone | Rachel Podger | Viktoria Mullova
The Channel Classics issue follows a disc of Bach solo concertos from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque issued in 2010....
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2013
GOVES Just stuff people do
Although his House of Bedlam collective was behind the notable album Talking Microtonal Blues (1/14), this is the first disc...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014
HANDEL Ero e Leandro. Water Music Suite No 1
European Union Baroque Orchestra | Huw Daniel | Lars Ulrik Mortensen | Maria Keohane
It may not look like it at first but there are three completely different orchestras on this disc. The European...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2013
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