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BEETHOVEN The Late Quartets (Calidore String Quartet)

The Calidore Quartet prime their tonal canvas in warm shades: nothing so bland as magnolia, but more opulent than the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2023

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. Firebird (Mäkelä)

In taking these momentous scores back to their Parisian roots Klaus Mäkelä, as expected, engages his keen ears and sense...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023

STRAUSS 'Santtu conducts Strauss'

‘We started big’, says Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s welcome note in the booklet about his first season at the helm of the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 8-10 (Petrenko)

Recorded during lockdown, this trio of Shostakovich symphonies chimes quite dramatically with the mood of that time and speaks volumes...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Liss. Wilson)

John Wilson’s new Rachmaninov album with the Sinfonia of London opens with a monstrous crash in the first few seconds,...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2023

PUTS The City. Marimba Concerto. Moonlight (Alsop)

Kevin Puts wrote his Marimba Concerto (1997, rev 2021) while a graduate student at the Eastman School of Music. It...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 (Welser-Möst)

I hope readers who only listen to CDs will not miss out on this fine, but digital-only, recording. Franz Welser-Möst...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2023

NORDHEIM The Tempest: Suite From the Ballet

When reviewing the first recording of Arne Nordheim’s then very new Suite from his ballet The Tempest (1979), recorded for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023

MYASKOVSKY Cello Concerto (Raphael Wallfisch)

Myaskovsky’s concertante and duo sonata works are not numerous, and those with cello fit snugly on to a single CD....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2023

MESSIAEN Des canyons aux étoiles... (Fischer)

The Utah Symphony has enjoyed something of a golden era under the direction of Thierry Fischer, and this latest release...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2023

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