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Mosaic (Wenting Kang)

Since winning First Prize in the 2012 Tokyo International Viola Competition, Chinese player Wenting Kang has gotten around, playing in...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2022

MCCLELLAND Where the Shadow Glides - Songs, Solo Piano and Choral Works

The catalogue of William McClelland (b1950), as viewed on his website wmcclelland.com, is relatively modest in numbers, divided largely between...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2022

Enfolding

The String Orchestra of Brooklyn’s new album features first recordings of works that transform notions of what 22 strings and...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2022

BEETHOVEN Complete Music for Piano and Cello (Robert deMaine)

Cellists must be eternally grateful to Beethoven for his role in transforming their instrument from supporting player to fully fledged...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2022

WEINBERG The Passenger (Kluttig)

Half the action of The Passenger takes place in the hell-on-earth of Auschwitz and the other half in the false...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2022

VERDI Falstaff (Gardiner)

There are many memorable fat knights in the Falstaff discography, so it’s all the more splendid to have another Sir...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 10/2022

TELEMANN Pastorelle en musique (Oberlinger)

In his 1718 autobiography Telemann mentioned that in Frankfurt he had composed about 20 serenatas for weddings. These were entirely...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2022

SCHÜTZ Dafne (Wilson)

Alas, the music of Schütz’s Dafne is entirely lost. Whether or not the ‘pastoral tragi-comedy’ was really the first German...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2022

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Golden Cockerel (Rustioni)

Thanks to Barrie Kosky’s production at the Royal Opera, everyone now imagines that Shostakovich’s opera The Nose contains a scene...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 10/2022

OFFENBACH Le voyage dans la lune (Dumoussaud)

When Offenbach’s Le voyage dans la Lune opened in Paris in 1875, every single review mentioned Jules Verne. Verne himself...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2022

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