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HANDEL Rodelinda

This production is something of a family affair because the stage director is the conductor’s son. Set in a revolving...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015

BRAUNFELS Verkündigung

With this release, Annunciation (1934 37) achieves its second commercial CD recording. Check out Michael Oliver’s July 1994 Gramophone review...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2015

Road Trip

The imaginative, bright young resident ensemble at London’s Kings Place launch their Warner Classics contract with what we used to...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2015

MCCABE; PRITCHARD; SAXTON Trumpet Concertos

Four vibrant, attractive concertos – three written within the past three years – by three of Britain’s brightest and best,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

Music for Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock understood the value of music and its impact on audiences. He omitted Bernard Herrmann’s searing score for Psycho (1960)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

British String Concertos

The release of this four-CD set of works for solo string instruments and orchestra pays tribute, as does the recently...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2015

ELGAR; BRITTEN; PÁLSSON Violin Concertos

A product of the Reykjavík Music School, Eastman School of Music, Royal College of Music and Juilliard School, Guðný Gumundsdóttir...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2015

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (1897 98) is known for its autobiography and the composer provided with it a titled narrative...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2015

TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No 2

Coupling Tchaikovsky’s Serenade with Shostakovich’s Second Quartet seems eccentric even for an ensemble that, so the record blurb tells us,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2015

SCIARRINO Cantare con silenzio. Berceuse. Libro notturno delle voci

Salvatore Sciarrino’s early-period orchestral piece Berceuse (1967 69) provides a disappointingly still centre to the turning, transformative sound universe of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2015

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