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I and Thou

That the 21st century seems not only to have liberated cello duos but unleashed them is amply demonstrated by VC2,...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2023

Difficult Grace

Seth Parker Woods puts his stylistic range and extraordinary musicianship on display in this intensely personal programme. In Fredrick Gifford’s...

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

TEMPLE Behind the Wallpaper

The Spektral Quartet kept audiences on the edge of their seats in a vast repertoire from 2010 until last year,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2023

HOLLAND Guitar Works and Arrangements (Christopher Mallett)

The name Justin Holland may not be familiar to many music lovers but it is cherished by classical guitarists, especially...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2023

JS BACH 'Clavichord' (András Schiff)

The booklet note to Schiff’s latest early keyboard venture with ECM offers factual and circumstantial arguments for Bach having a...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2023

Cyrille Dubois: So Romantique!

Light lyric tenor Cyrille Dubois is fast becoming the poster boy for Palazzetto Bru Zane, the Venetian cultural institution dedicated...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2023

Arias of Love & Sorrow (Gevorg Hakobyan)

Gevorg Hakobyan is a name new to me but, as this album suggests, he is clearly a fine singer: a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2023

Verdi Choruses (Teatro alla Scala)

In 1994, when Riccardo Muti was inducted into the Cavalieri di Verdi by Parma’s prestigious Club dei 27, he noted...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2023

TAFRESHIPOUR The Doll Behind the Curtain

The Doll Behind the Curtain, a two act, 70-minute chamber opera by Danish-Iranian composer Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour, was first seen...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2023

BOLOGNE SAINT-GEORGES L’amant Anonyme

The life of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, is the stuff of which films are made. Born in 1745, his...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 04/2023

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