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BOCCHERINI Six String Trios Op 34 G101‑106
The string trio is usually thought of in its Classical format, for one each of violin, viola and cello. It...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW17
HOFMANNSTHAL Jedermann (Ensemble 013)
The irony would not have been lost on Hugo von Hofmannsthal, inveterate snob and Anglophile, that his Freudian updating of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021
BOND Instruments of Revelation
Chicago Pro Musica | Jenny Lin | Olga Vinokur | Rufus Müller
Victoria Bond (b1945) is a multifaceted composer and conductor (the first woman to hold a Doctorate in Conducting from the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019
CHOPIN Piano Concertos (chamber versions)
Apollon Musagète Quartett | Kevin Kenner
No matter how well you know these two life-enhancing works, I strongly suggest you hear them in their alternative garb....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2021
Hommage à Penderecki
Anne-Sophie Mutter | Lambert Orkis | London Symphony Orchestra | Roman Patkoló
Anne-Sophie Mutter has advocated contemporary music throughout her four-decade career and Krzysztof Penderecki above all, as this two-disc 85th birthday...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018
DAUGHERTY Dreamachine. Trail of Tears
Albany Symphony Orchestra | Amy Porter | Carol Jantsch | David Alan Miller
Michael Daugherty (b1954) has 20 concertos to his name and this highly enjoyable Naxos disc draws together three of his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2018
PROCTOR Virtuoso Piano Works (Tyler Hay)
Simon Proctor (b1959) is best known for music for rare instruments. His Concerto for Serpent (1987) featured at some of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2023
12 Hommages à Paul Sacher
Cello Ensemble | Jürg Wyttenbach | Patrick Demenga | Thomas Demenga
It was Rostropovich's idea to invite 12 composers to contribute to a seventieth birthday gift for the uminent Swiss conductor...
Reviewed in issue 8/1995
Mendelssohn Symphonies
There is much to be said in favour of both these new CDs of the Scottish Symphony. Dohnanyi in his...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1989
Puccini Tosca
Maria Guleghina is perhaps more identified with Tosca than with any other role: she has sung it at virtually every...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
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