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GRISEY Dérives

If, in Boulez’s Pli selon pli, you’ve ever wanted those bewitchingly beautiful chords to last longer than a couple of...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 10/2023

GLAZUNOV; SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concertos (Rudolf Koelman)

Here we have an attractive pairing of violin concertos that are not over-represented in the recording catalogues: Saint-Saëns’s Third and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023

CHEN GANG Butterfly Lovers

Transcription often allows music one knows well to be heard in new or different contexts – think of Busoni’s reworkings...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Järvi)

They say the apple never falls far from the tree, so it’s perhaps not surprising to find Paavo Järvi’s second...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2023

BJARNASON 'From Earth to Ether'

Daníel Bjarnason is best known to the record catalogue as the conductor responsible for the Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s continuing series...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos (Steven Devine)

Bach was an inveterate assembler. Long after he had jettisoned his liturgical cantata cycles for solo keyboard collections in Leipzig...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2023

TUBIN Kratt

Another riveting performance from Paavo Järvi’s army-of generals Estonian Festival Orchestra and another album on which it’s hard to get...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2023

ADDISON; JACOB; RUBBRA British Piano Concertos Vol 2

It is Gordon Jacob’s use of the orchestra in his Piano Concerto No 2 that rouses the admiration more than...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2023

STILLPOINT

Inspired by the Emerging Artist Competition at DePauw University’s 21CMposium in 2016, Awadagin Pratt, Mark Rabideau and Judd Greenstein developed...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2023

From Method to Madness: The American Sound

This survey of American music for cello and piano includes a pair of standard works (the Barber and Foss) and...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 10/2023

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