BROWN Iconicities

(The) William Winant Percussion Group | Chris Brown | William Winant

‘Where Stupa introduces polytemporality in the metaphysical and chronological sense, with all their playful capacity for harmony, Gangsa addresses the...

Reviewed in issue

TEMPLE Behind the Wallpaper

Julia Holter | Spektral Quartet

The Spektral Quartet kept audiences on the edge of their seats in a vast repertoire from 2010 until last year,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2023

Mahler Symphony No 1

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado

It is now more that a year since I exhausted most of my superlatives on a review of Bernstein's Concertgebouw...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1991

WAGNER Lohengrin

Andris Nelsons | Annette Dasch | Bayreuth Festival Chorus | Christian Tschelebiew | George Zeppenfeld | Jukka Rasilainen | Klaus Florian Vogt | Petra Lang | Rainer Zaun | Samuel Youn

This is a rather special Lohengrin. Even if you dislike what you see, what you hear is imposing evidence of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2012

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 32 LISZT Années de pèlerinage No 1

Till Fellner

This recording combines two live performances by Till Fellner: the Swiss Année in the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019

RICHTER Voices

Troubled times often prompt creative responses that bring out the human qualities lying within us – tolerance, compassion, dignity and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2020

Presteigne Premieres: New Music for String Orchestra

Amy Dickson | George Vass | Presteigne Festival Orchestra | Rebecca Afonwy-Jones | Suzy Willison-Kawalec

If not the highest-profile conductor of his generation, George Vass has an enviable record in commissioning and premiering music by...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2021

Soave e virtuoso

Alexis Kossenko | Les Ambassadeurs

One would be hard-pressed to find a flautist whose music-making is as broad as Alexis Kossenko’s. Active on both modern...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017

Brahms German Requiem

(Eric) Ericson Chamber Choir | Andreas Schmidt | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Cheryl Studer | Claudio Abbado | Swedish Radio Chorus

The most comforting of Requiems has here the most genial of performances. To take the soloists as a first example:...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Mozart Piano Concertos 17 & 21

André Previn | Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Rudolf Serkin | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy

The three new CDs sound well. The DG and the Philips offer exceptional ranges of orchestral colour and perhaps on...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/1985