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CPE BACH Hamburg Symphonies Wq 182 (Janiczek)

For inspired craziness no 18th-century composer, surely, can touch Emanuel Bach. When Baron van Swieten, of Haydn Creation fame, commissioned...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2024

SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No 1 (Bruno Philippe)

You know when every aspect of an album just sings? Well, this is one of those, and not only because...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024

Lowell Liebermann Plays Piano Music of Theodor Kirchner

Lowell Liebermann’s prowess at the keyboard usually takes a back seat to his prominence as a composer. He made up...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024

GLASS 'Signature' (Angèle Dubeau)

Philip Glass’s music was the first to be featured in the series of ‘portrait’ albums by violinist Angèle Dubeau and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2024

BOYCE The Bird is an Alphabet

For the American composer Douglas Boyce, writing music is an act of philosophising. Each of the recent vocal-chamber works gathered...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2024

ADLER Unholy Sonnets

While not an ardent fan of the art song medium, I have to say that this new Navona album of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024

Verismo: Preludi e Intermezzi

Seeing the words Hindoyan and verismo in close conjunction I’d lazily anticipated a joint recital disc with the conductor’s wife,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2023

Cyrille Dubois: Jouissons de nos beaux ans!

Taking its title from an amorous chorus in Rameau’s Les Boréades (1763), this programme traverses French operatic genres spanning from...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2023

WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Fiore)

The opening signs for this Meistersinger are promising. The curtain of the Deutsche Oper Berlin stays closed as John Fiore...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2023

VERDI Ernani (Conlon)

Though Ernani shows Verdi at his dramatically incisive best in this early stage of his output, the opera still needs...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2023

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