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The Contrast: English Poetry in Song
Carolyn Sampson | Joseph Middleton
Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton’s new album takes its name from the penultimate song of Walton’s A Song for the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020
TCHAIKOVKSY Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Nelsons)
Andris Nelsons | Baiba Skride | Håkan Hardenberger | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
The prime purpose of this box-set is undoubtedly to document Andris Nelsons’s accounts of Tchaikovsky’s last three (numbered) symphonies taped...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021
PENDERECKI conducts Penderecki, Vol 2: Choral Works
Warsaw Boys' Choir | Warsaw Philharmonic Choir
This two-disc set is an anthology of Penderecki’s very substantial output of choral music, in superb performances under the composer’s direction. The first...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2017
ABRAHAMSEN Left, Alone
Mariano Chiacchiarini | Peter Rundel | Tamara Stefanovich | WDR Symphony Orchestra
Hans Abrahamsen’s music is always divining, assimilating, shaking down – seeking the truth by returning to the same places over...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023
PERGOLESI Adriano In Siria
Metastasio’s libretto Adriano in Siria was first set to music by Caldara (Vienna, 1732), and subsequently adapted for many more...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2013
BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Skrowaczewski)
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski | Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
Stanisław Skrowaczewski, who died in February 2017 at the age of 93, was a master conductor and much-loved musician whose...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2024
DEAN Rooms of Elsinore
em>Hamlet tends to get under the skin, but it’s a sign of how seriously Brett Dean took his 2010 Glyndebourne...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024
TOWER Concertos
Adrian Morejon | Boston Modern Orchestra Project | Carol Wincenc | Gil Rose | Marc-André Hamelin
Joan Tower is such a congenial, straightforward presence, one easily forgets that her complex compositional personality predates the full-fledged American...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2023
ROSSINI Stabat Mater
There is bound to be a sense of regret that so musically judicious an account of the first of Rossini’s...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2017
MOZART; BIRCHALL Clarinet Concertos (Michael Collins)
Michael Collins | Philharmonia Orchestra | Robin O'Neill | Wigmore Soloists
Michael Collins favours unusual couplings for his recordings of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. His first recording (DG) was paired with Mikhail...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2022
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