PATERAS Collected Works 2002 - 2012

I suspect economics was the reason why Australian composer Anthony Pateras – contemplating this five-CD pull-together of his collected works...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012

FELDMAN Crippled Symmetry. at June in Buffalo

(The) Feldman Soloists

It’s violinist Andreas Seidel and pianist Steffen Schleiermacher’s bad luck that their recording of Morton Feldman’s 1982 For John Cage...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: AW/2012

Dmitri Hvorostovsky: Live recordings 1994-2016

Dmitri Hvorostovsky | Vienna State Opera Orchestra

The late Dmitri Hvorostovsky sang 10 roles at the Wiener Staatsoper. Nine of them are represented on this Orfeo disc...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 2 & 5 (Bezuidenhout)

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Kristian Bezuidenhout | Pablo Heras-Casado

One of the choicest offerings thus far this celebratory Beethoven year is the powerfully compelling collaboration of Kristian Bezuidenhout and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2020

TEIRSTEIN 'Restless Nation'

Cassatt String Quartet | Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra | Jiří Petrdlík | Marco Ambrosini | Mivos String Quartet | Yair Dalal

Andy Teirstein (b1957) composed his string quartet Restless Nation (2010, rev 2020) after a sabbatical year during which, with his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022

Turning into Song - A Celebration of Songs by American Composers

David Finckel | David Shifrin | Mischa Bouvier | Seunghee Lee | Susannah Woodruff | Yevgeny Yontov

In a provocative twist, this new recording captures the results of a commissioning project initiated not by a musician but...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW23

CHOPIN 'Voyage: Late Piano Works' (Yulianna Avdeeva)

Yulianna Avdeeva

In 2010 Yulianna Avdeeva became the first woman to win the Chopin Piano Competition in 45 years (following in the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2024

Mozart Orchestral Works

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado

At a time when the inevitable mutterings have emerged against Abbado and his effect on the Berlin Philharmonic, it is...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1994

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado

Tchaikovsky's Tempest is a flawed work nevertheless offering imaginative moments, impressive orchestral colouring and a magnificent love theme - perhaps...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2000

Verdi Opera Choruses

Claudio Abbado | Milan La Scala Chorus | Milan La Scala Orchestra

This was Abbado's first recording with the company of La Scala after he had taken over as Music Director, and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1985