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TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 SCHULHOFF Five Pieces (Honeck)

Manfred Honeck has been Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony since 2008, during which time they have released many discs...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2023

Rough Magic

Returning on the subway from a 2015 concert in Brooklyn by Roomful of Teeth, Vivien Schweitzer of The New York...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2023

Cecile Licad: American Dances

The fifth volume of Cecile Licad’s ‘Anthology of American Piano Music’ offers an intriguingly curated programme focusing upon dance. Amy...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2023

HEAP Dillinger

John Dillinger, the American gangster once proclaimed ‘Public Enemy No 1’, is as infamous as Bonnie and Clyde. His brief,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2023

CERRONE In a Grove

'Remembrance’s flawed roughness’ is how Christopher Cerrone describes the narrative ambiguity threaded through this hour-long chamber opera. Based on Ryūnosuke...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2023

Hallelujah Junction

John Adams’s Hallelujah Junction (1996) has had at least half a dozen recordings since the first, by Nicolas Hodges and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2023

POST Concertino á cinque. Piano Quintet

Each of David Post’s superbly written new three-movement quintets adds music of a richly imaginative nature to the repertoire. His...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2023

NOVA Titration

Shara Nova (b1974, known until 2016 under her married name of Worden) is a soprano and composer with her own...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2023

Icons - The American Minimalists

Since its formation as a saxophone quartet in 1988 by multi-instrumentalist Eric Sleichim, Bl!ndman’s dynamic performances and recordings have sought...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2023

ROSSINI Il Turco in Italia (Scappucci)

This small gem of an opera, first seen in Milan in August 1814, was a collaboration between the 22-year-old Rossini...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2023

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