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CORELLI Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Continuo

This album is the result of the MA Competition Bruges, at which part of the first prize was the opportunity...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022

BRIDGE; BRITTEN Works for Viola (Hélène Clément)

It is good nowadays that recordings of Britten are steadily beginning to acknowledge the debt the composer owed to his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2022

Orchestral Focus: Bruckner Symphonies

‘Revaluation’ and ‘revelation’ are the words that most immediately come to mind in response to this remarkable release in Unitel’s...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2022

Lisa Batiashvili: Secret Love Letters

It is often asserted that today’s violin stars lack the personality of their famous forebears. Then again the projection of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2022

Alison Balsom: Quiet City

There’s something intensely evocative about the solo trumpet – a plaintive, plangent, melancholic sound that speaks just as eloquently of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2022

Håkan Hardenberger: French Trumpet Concertos

Håkan Hardenberger and Fabien Gabel, himself a former trumpeter, join forces here for a programme of post-war French music, familiar...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022

Creation

Hard to believe Lockenhaus is now into its fifth decade but this festival, founded in 1981 by Gidon Kremer and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2022

SULLIVAN L’ile Enchantée (John Andrews)

Another generous programme of Sullivan from John Andrews on Dutton, and at first glance it appears as if most of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 6 & 9 (Lloyd-Gonzalez)

Shostakovich’s Sixth and Ninth symphonies clearly belong together – flipsides of the same coin, the composer wrong-footing the Soviet establishment...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2022

SCHUBERT Overtures and Orchestral Works (Holliger)

How best to respond to a musical fragment? The musicologist’s approach is to order the sketches as coherently as possible,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2022

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