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Carols after a Plague

Sleigh bells ring briefly during the newest recording by the Philadelphia-based chamber choir The Crossing, but don’t expect your usual...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 01/2023

MUHLY Hymns for Private Use SOCOLOFSKY So Much More

For their fifth album the Detroit-based Akropolis Reed Quintet showcase two commissioned works that brilliantly exploit their unique instrumentation –...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 01/2023

The Young Chopin (Eric Zuber)

Eric Zuber’s debut recording offers solo piano accounts of the dazzling Là ci darem la mano Variations, which Chopin composed...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 01/2023

BRISTOW Symphony No 4 FRY Niagara Symphony

Before Ives, Chadwick, Amy Beach and John Knowles Paine, there were William Henry Fry, of Santa Claus Symphony fame, and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023

AKIHO Oculus

As masters of the art of hitting things, percussionists are deeply connected to the sheer physicality of making music. In...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2023

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 (transcr Liszt) MOZART Piano Concerto No 20 (transcr Alkan) Paul Wee

In September 2015 Jeremy Nicholas lamented that José Raúl López’s performance of Mozart’s D minor Concerto as reflected through the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2022

Claire Bryant: Whole Heart

Each of the seven works on Claire Bryant’s blazing debut album is about relationships and playing the cello in the...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2022

ORDWAY The Outer Edge of Youth

I’d describe the music of Scott Ordway’s quite beautiful 2020 choral opera The Outer Edge of Youth as a blend...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022

Maestrino Mozart: Airs d’opéra d’un jeune génie

Marie-Eve Munger’s new recording is a tour de force of scholarship and artistry. The Canadian soprano has collected arias and...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2022

BRINK Utility Music

For his first stand-alone release, Julian Brink has repurposed and reorchestrated an incomplete score for an unfinished film. Utility Music...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2022

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