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MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Roth)

I absolutely adored this performance. No equivocation. Hearing the music as Mahler might have heard it – and indeed imagined...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2022

Perspectives

It was only six years ago that Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion became the first percussion group to win a Grammy...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2022

Variant 6: New Suns

The pandemic has been hard on everyone, including musicians thwarted in pursuing their art. For singers in general and vocal...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2022

Yolanda Kondonassis: Five Minutes for Earth

When Science Officer Spock of the starship USS Enterprise compiles his playlist in the 23rd century, Yolanda Kondonassis’s recital of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2022

1919 Viola Sonatas - Hidden Treasures from an Epoch Year (Hillary Herndon)

For the second Berkshire Festival Competition in 1919, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge offered $1000 to the best new work for viola...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022

LAITMAN 'The Ocean of Eternity'

As I noted with her previous Acis release, ‘Are Women People?’ (10/21), Lori Laitman’s works are often emotional in expression...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

Freddie De Tommaso: Il Tenore

The young British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso caused something of a stir last year with his debut album ‘Passione’ (7/21),...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2022

Samuel Mariño: Sopranista

Samuel Mariño is a true male soprano: his chest voice goes all the way up (and up and up –...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2022

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Barenboim)

Neither conductor Barenboim (with several decades’ performances) nor stage director Tcherniakov (two previous productions) are beginners with this piece, and...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2022

VERDI Don Carlo (Haitink)

Luchino Visconti’s 1958 production of Verdi’s Don Carlo for Covent Garden was a talismanic event in the Royal Opera’s history....

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 08/2022

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