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‘Sonic Alchemy’

Musical alchemies are often forged in strange and unexpected ways, and this engaging album of music by Mozart, Pärt and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2023

BUXTEHUDE Trio Sonatas Op 1 (Ensemble Spinoza)

This is Ensemble Spinoza’s debut album, and I commend them for choosing to record Buxtehude’s Op 1. There is already...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2023

BURGESS Complete Guitar Quartets

It’s probably fair to say that Anthony Burgess is still best known as the author of A Clockwork Orange. But...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2023

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol 2 (Sitkovetsky Piano Trio)

Beethoven’s three Op 1 Trios – surely the greatest opus 1 in musical history – are the work of a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2023

Linus Roth: SamBach

JS Bach’s music continues to inspire all manner of innovative arrangements and reworkings, with examples from the past decade or...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2023

Champagne! The Sound of Lumbye and His Idols

Performing ‘light’ (for want of a better term) music on period instruments is an idea whose time has come. Following...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2023

'Sir Adrian Boult'

More Boult treasures from the radio archives, the pick of the present generous collection comprising his thrillingly powerful traversal with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2023

WEINBERG Concertinos. Symphony No 7 (Grossmann)

In 1948 Weinberg shared the fate of his fellow composers in the Soviet Union, being castigated for supposed aesthetic sins...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2023

TABAKOVA Orpheus' Comet. Earth Suite. Concertos

Recorded in September 2022 (the concluding Cello Concerto at a live concert in The Bridgewater Hall), early into Dobrinka Tabakova’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

SANTORO Symphony No 8. Cello Concerto (Marina Martins)

This entry in Naxos’s survey of Claudio Santoro’s symphonies and orchestral music brings us to the 1960s and the Brazilian...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2023

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