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Sirius Quartet: Playing on the Edge
On the evidence of their playing on this fascinating disc from Navona, the Sirius Quartet are a fine, adaptable ensemble,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
DESSNER Tenebre
Moses Sumney | Resonanz Ensemble
Bryce Dessner confessed to having been shocked by the precision and energy of Ensemble Resonanz’s performances when he first heard...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2020
HO The Shaman. Arctic Symphony
Alexander Mickelthwate | The Nunavut Sivuniksavut Performers | Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Vincent Ho (b1975) is a native of Ottawa, though of Chinese heritage. During 2007 14 he was Composer-in-Residence with the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2018
Brahms Symphonies 1-4
David Zinman | Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
Recorded live in Zurich’s Tonhalle in April 2010, this is David Zinman’s first such project during his 16-year tenure at...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2011
JACKSON Requiem
Jeremy Backhouse | Vasari Singers
Requiem Masses written since 9/11 go easy on the Dies irae: do you need to hear the Day of Wrath...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2012
COUPERIN Complete Works for Harpsichord
‘I would argue that he was the greatest of the Couperins’, writes harpsichordist Richard Egarr of Louis (c1626-1661), the uncle...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2011
SCHUBERT Winterreise (Padmore)
Kristian Bezuidenhout | Mark Padmore
Only a few months after Florian Boesch’s second recording of Schubert’s great wintry song-cycle (Hyperion, A/17), here’s a second bite...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2018
WOLOSOFF 'Paradise Found' Music for Cello and Piano
Lifelong New Yorker Bruce Wolosoff (b1955) is a formidable pianist and a composer who delights in blurring genre boundaries. I’ve...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2022
MASSENET La Navarraise (Veronesi)
'As for the work itself’, wrote George Bernard Shaw for The World on the occasion of the opera’s Covent Garden...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2018
BERG Wozzeck (Jurowski)
As a functionary behind a desk between 1915 and 1918, Berg had what used to be known as a good...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW18
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