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Lucie Horsch: Origins

Charlie Parker’s Ornithology on the treble recorder? Surely not. But yes, this is exactly how Dutch recorder supremo Lucie Horsch...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2022

Nelson Freire: Memories - The Unreleased Recordings

I thought this would be a nil nisi bonum appreciation of a sorely missed artist who commanded wide respect among...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2022

Alexandre Tharaud: Cinema

Few nations venerate cinema like the French. Think of François Truffaut’s admiration of the films of Hitchcock or his love...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2022

YUN Three Late Works (Vänskä)

Few composers’ lives were more affected by the geopolitics of the 20th century than that of Isang Yun. Born in...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2022

A WILLIAMS Orchestral Works (Woods)

The English Symphony Orchestra and Kenneth Woods’s ‘21st Century Symphony Project’ goes from strength to strength: Philip Sawyers’s Third (10/17;...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2022

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 6 & 8 (Brabbins)

We’ve reached the penultimate volume in Martyn Brabbins’s stimulating RVW symphony cycle for Hyperion. Proceedings are launched with a scrupulously...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2022

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Kitezh Suite

Noseda’s account of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth doesn’t put a foot wrong but leaves one wanting so much more. I could leave...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2022

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 3 & 5. Pohjola's Daughter (Rouvali)

Following the impressive earlier releases of the First and Second Symphonies (3/19, 4/20), Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s Sibelius cycle continues with notable...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2022

SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy. Prometheus (Yevgeny Sudbin)

Not even Breaking Bad-style blue meth – so I would imagine – can rival Scriabin’s mind-altering explorations of the celestial...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2022

SCHUMANN Symphony Nos 1 & 2 (Alsop. Re-orch. Mahler)

A piece of music (or indeed any work of art) exists on two temporal planes: as an artefact of its...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022

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