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Melancolia
A remarkable achievement: a fan letter to Spanish music (not excluding South America or an excursion to Villa-Lobos’s Brazil) including...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2012
Ensemble Recherche: Libeslieder
Nothing here need give Elton John or James Blunt any sleepless nights. For starters, none of these 30 love songs...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014
Végh in Hungary
Salzburg Camerata | Sándor Végh
In my experience there are only two conductors who could have delivered these pungent, characterful and lovingly played performances, Pablo...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014
FAURÉ; LEKEU; RAVEL Violin Sonatas
Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe give a passionate, full-blooded performance of the Lekeu Sonata, taking on board the 22 year-old...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 12/2014
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto Op 61. Symphony No 7
Alexandre da Costa | Johannes Wildner | Taipei Symphony Orchestra
With such an oft-recorded work as the Beethoven Violin Concerto it’s understandable that performers will search for a new angle....
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2014
GLERUP Dust Encapsulated
Athelas Sinfonietta, Copenhagen | Neel Bramsnæs Teilmann
Rune Glerup (b1981) is a young Danish composer of whom there are high hopes for the future in his native...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014
MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 1 & 2
The Cecilia Quartet came to international attention when they won the 2010 Banff Quartet Competition. These days they combine an...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2016
BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings
Aldeburgh Strings | Allan Clayton | Lorenzo Soulès | Markus Däunert | Màtè Szücs | Richard Watkins
Founded in 2010, Aldeburgh Strings bring together advanced students for intensive periods of study. Their tutors are leading musicians from...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2016
Montage
The six film composers represented on ‘Montage’ have between them amassed 72 Oscar nominations and eight wins. ‘But,’ ponders the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2015
VIVALDI New Discoveries Vol II
Alexis Kossenko | Ann Hallenberg | Anton Steck | Federico Maria Sardelli | Modo Antiquo
Musicology and the recording industry are sometimes uneasy bedfellows, particularly in relation to early repertories. Dodgy reconstructions of music for...
Reviewed in issue 11/2012
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