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MOZART Ecstasy & Abyss

‘You gotta get a gimmick’, Louise is advised in Gypsy. In opera-directing circles, it’s sometimes disparagingly called a Konzept. The...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2023

LIM Annunciation Triptych

If Liza Lim isn’t on your musical radar, I suggest you remedy that. I can’t think of many other composers...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 07/2023

Contemporary American Composers: Glass; Montgomery; Raimi

Riccardo Muti’s tenure with the CSO came to an end in June this year with three performances of Beethoven’s Missa...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2023

KETÈLBEY Orchestral Works (Yates)

Few English composers have been the subject of such consistent condescension as Birmingham-born Albert W Ketèlbey. You won’t catch a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2023

HOWARD Torus

Torus (2016), sphere (2017) and Antisphere (2019) are three examples of what Emily Howard calls ‘orchestral geometries’, titles that embody...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2023

FARRENC Symphonies 1-3 (Equilbey)

If you haven’t heard Louise Farrenc’s music, you might doubt the fervent claims made about it. Can her recently revived...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 07/2023

BRITTEN; BRUCH Violin Concertos (Kerson Leong)

Kerson Leong’s splendid account of the Bruch comes hot on the heels of Randall Goosby’s no less committed reading with...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2023

BRAHMS by arrangement Vol 2

Brahms’s Op 34 already exists in more than one form: most famously as the turbulent Piano Quintet but also as...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2023

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 2 RAVEL Concerto in G (Martha Argerich)

According to one online discography, there are 11 recordings of Martha Argerich playing Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto and 15 of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2023

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 (Garrick Ohlsson)

In his booklet note to the five Beethoven piano concertos, recorded over the course of a week during July 2022...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2023

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