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Prism V - Beethoven, Webern, Bach

You need your wits about you and the volume up to catch the head-motif opening Webern’s String Quartet of 1905,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2023

An Englishman Abroad

Who is this Englishman? Well, it’s Nicola Matteis – not the Italian violinist-composer we usually hear but rather his son...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2023

WEILL Symphonies Nos 1 & 2. Der Silbersee (Gruber)

Who was it, again, who said that all music was either fundamentally symphonic or fundamentally balletic? In any case, there...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2023

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 49th Parallel (Yates)

Vaughan Williams came late to film composing. By 1940, when he started on his first such score, for 49th Parallel,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023

SKALKOTTAS Two Concertos

Arguably, both recordings here are firsts, as although Skalkottas’s Violin Concerto (1937 38) has appeared on CD before, this is...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023

SAWYERS Concertos (Woods)

The Double Concerto for violin and cello is the second work that Philip Sawyers has composed for the prodigiously gifted...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023

NERI Sonate da sonarsi con varij stromenti

Massimiliano Neri cuts an interesting figure among the ranks of 16th-century Venetian composers. He was born around 1620 to a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2023

MOZART Ecstasy & Abyss

‘You gotta get a gimmick’, Louise is advised in Gypsy. In opera-directing circles, it’s sometimes disparagingly called a Konzept. The...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2023

LIM Annunciation Triptych

If Liza Lim isn’t on your musical radar, I suggest you remedy that. I can’t think of many other composers...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 07/2023

Contemporary American Composers: Glass; Montgomery; Raimi

Riccardo Muti’s tenure with the CSO came to an end in June this year with three performances of Beethoven’s Missa...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2023

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