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ELFMAN Violin Concerto 'Eleven Eleven' HAILSTORK Piano Concerto No 1

It’s second time around for soloist Sandy Cameron in Danny Elfman’s Concerto for amplified violin and orchestra (the subtitle Eleven...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Thielemann)

Christian Thielemann’s Bruckner cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra continues apace with this refined performance of the Ninth Symphony, recorded...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Roth)

This is a superb account of the original 1874 version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, first published in 1975 in Leopold...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2023

AHO Violin Concerto No 2. Cello Concerto No 2

He may be best known for his 17 symphonies but Kalevi Aho (b1949) has also written 38 concertos that, between...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2023

ADÈS Dante (Dudamel)

We’ve had a whiff of Thomas Adès’s ballet score Dante in Gramophone’s pages before. Last year I reviewed a performance...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2023

GESUALDO Madrigali, Books 5 & 6

At the end of a multi-volume survey such as this, one inevitably reflects on the whole project as much as...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2023

Permutations

There is a fascinating dichotomy at the heart of this album, one that – for once – produces positive results...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023

I and Thou

That the 21st century seems not only to have liberated cello duos but unleashed them is amply demonstrated by VC2,...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2023

Difficult Grace

Seth Parker Woods puts his stylistic range and extraordinary musicianship on display in this intensely personal programme. In Fredrick Gifford’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023

TEMPLE Behind the Wallpaper

The Spektral Quartet kept audiences on the edge of their seats in a vast repertoire from 2010 until last year,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2023

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