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BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 8 MÉHUL Symphony No 1

Previous instalments in Harmonia Mundi’s multi-ensemble anniversary Beethoven cycle from these players (4/20, 10/20) have raised issues of balance between...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW22

ALFVÉN Symphonic Works Vol 3

Premiered at a concert conducted by Wilhelm Stenhammar in Stockholm in 1899, when Alfvén was 27, the second of the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW22

ADAMS Orchestral Works (Järvi)

You never quite know what you’ll get on record next from Paavo Järvi, though there was the slightest clue some...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW22

MEYERBEER Robert le diable (Minkowski)

Robert le diable was first performed at the Paris Opéra on November 21, 1831. The theatre’s new manager, Louis Véron,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW22

Julian Velasco:  As We Are

Cedille celebrates its 30th anniversary with a cool recital by saxophonist Julian Velasco, winner of the Chicago-based label’s first Emerging...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW22

MOZART Piano Sonatas Vols 2 & 3 (Orli Shaham)

The stylish intelligence and pianistic refinement distinguishing the first volume in Orli Shaham’s Mozart piano sonata cycle (released in 2020)...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW22

FRANK; SHOSTAKOVICH 'El Rebelde'

California-born Gabriela Lena Frank (b1972) frequently draws upon aspects of her mixed heritage in her music. Here, it’s her Latin...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW22

BURGE Sinfonia Antiqua & other works

The four works by John Burge on this new recording show the Canadian composer to be a creative figure of...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW22

BERMEL 'Intonations' Music For Clarinet and Strings

Naxos’s previous release of music by clarinettist-composer Derek Bermel (b1967), ‘Migrations’ (A/19), impressed me with its varied, colourful demeanour, bracing...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW22

Sarah Plum: Personal Noise

A slim discography barely hints at violinist Sarah Plum’s prolific career as a ‘new music specialist’ but confirms her engagingly...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 10/2022

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