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REALE Stroke of Midnight
The composer’s booklet note (written in spring last year) here opens in melancholic mood, with the news that he had,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade
Metamorphosen Berlin | Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt
Spot the Ponte Vecchio – however blurred the photograph – on a CD cover and it’s a fair bet that...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2017
RAFTERY Chamber Music
Animare Ensemble | Berkeley Ensemble | Heath Quartet
This is – I believe – the first commercial recording of music by Kevin Raftery (b1952), an expatriate American composer...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2017
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. Klavierstück D946 No 2
Michel Dalberto | Stephan Genz
A couple of years ago Stephan Genz and Michel Dalberto released a Winterreise that was welcomed in these pages by...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
SMETANA Má Vlast
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Jakub Hrusa
In a market crammed with recordings of Má vlast – several as historically significant as they are musically penetrating –...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2017
Schwertsik Nachtmusiken; Herr K entdeckt Amerika;Baumgesänge
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Heinz Karl Gruber
There was little doubt that, as Composer/Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, HK Gruber would tackle music by Kurt Schwertsik, his...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2011
The City of Tomorrow: Blow
The City of Tomorrow are a pioneering wind quintet who like to explore ‘physical movement and spatial relationships’ (aspects not...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2021
AHO 'Solo'
Various composers have attempted writing series of works for solo instruments, most famously, perhaps, Berio in his 14 Sequenzas (1958-2002)....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW21
IDDON Sapindales
Anton Lukoszevieze | Heather Roche | James Opstad | Juliet Fraser
The music on Martin Iddon’s second portrait disc on Another Timbre casts a flitting shadow at once medieval and contemporary....
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2022
KULAKOWSKI Piano Concerto. Sketches for Jazz Trio and Orchestra
The new music scene in Poland has diversified apace these past two decades, with the jazz scene in particular taking...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 05/2013
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