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ARNOLD Clarinet Concerto No 1 (Michael Collins)

Earworm alert! Originally composed for brass band and presented here in a splendidly idiomatic orchestration by Philip Lane, Malcolm Arnold’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2023

ABRAMS 'The American Project' (Yuja Wang)

‘The American Project’ is a grand title for a recording of a forgettable new piano concerto by an American conductor-composer,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2023

MOZART String Quintets K515 & K516

Mozart’s most famous quintets conclude a sequence of four instrumental works from the winter and spring of 1786 87 whose...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2023

Crossing Barriers: New Music for Brass Trio

For their debut recording, the Lantana Trio – Raquel Samayoa (trumpet), Stacie Mickens (horn) and Natalie Mannix (trombone), all faculty...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2023

MORRIS Kaleidoscope

The music of Craig Madden Morris (b1945 in New York; not to be confused with the Grammy-nominated trumpeter, b1968 in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023

FRANCK; VIERNE 'First and Last' (Christopher Houlihan)

Christopher Houlihan rightly views the French Romantic symphonic organ tradition as being bookended by Franck’s Grande pièce symphonique and Vierne’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023

JS BACH; WUORINEN Charles Wuorinen: A Tribute (Steven Beck)

It’s easy to hear why Steven Beck’s staggeringly meticulous interpretations of Charles Wuorinen’s piano works pleased the late composer. He...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023

Renée Fleming: Greatest Moments at the Met

Renée Fleming’s artistic stature hasn’t kept pace with her superstardom – isn’t that so often the case? – and this...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2023

PORPORA L’Angelica (Sardelli)

You might recognise the names of three of the characters listed above from two operas: Lully’s Roland (1685) and Handel’s...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2023

MATTHESON Boris Goudenow (Marchiol)

A Boris by Mattheson? Well yes, and in its way perhaps no less political in aspect than Mussorgsky’s. Johann Mattheson...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023

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