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RIHM #39 & #40: Sphäre Nach Studie. Stabat Mater. Male über Male 2. Jagden und Formen

In our polystylistic age, has any major composer been more polystylistic than Wolfgang Rihm? On the turn of a dime,...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2022

RAUTAVAARA Lost Landscapes: Works For Violin and Orchestra (Simone Lamsma)

Here we have ‘late-period Rautavaara’ – music written after the composer’s aortic dissection of 2004 and the extensive convalescence that...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2022

PEJACEVIC Piano Concerto Op 33. Symphony Op 41 (Peter Donohoe)

Though not world-premiere recordings – both the Symphony in F sharp minor (1916‑17) and the Piano Concerto in G minor...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2022

MOZART Piano Concertos, Vol 4 - K503; K466 (Anne Marie McDermott)

Anne-Marie McDermott reaches the fourth volume of her Mozart cycle with various conductors, offering the same concerto coupling as Jeremy...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2022

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 22 & 23 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

The word ‘naturalness’ is such a cliché, yet it applies to every aspect of this release. Take the opening ritornello...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2022

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 1. Piano Sextet (Yuja Wang)

Yuja Wang is clearly the star billing on this new release in DG’s recently launched Verbier Festival Gold digital-only series....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2022

HENDRICKX; MOZART 'Flow' Clarinet Concertos (Annelien Van Wauwe)

During lockdown, while some of us got stuck into baking sourdough, clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe practised yoga and commissioned Flemish...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2022

GUBAIDULINA Orchestral Works (Kalitzke; Klee)

This is a most interesting collection of three of Sofia Gubaidulina’s less-heard orchestral works. Pro et contra, from 1989, is...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2022

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3 (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

Remember the Beethoven semiquincentennial? The 250th-birthday celebration which was squeezed, contorted, if not ignored all together, in the face of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022

HANDEL La Resurrezione (Bicket)

Amid a string of triumphs from Handel’s glittering Roman sojourns, none rivalled the sacred oratorio La Resurrezione di Nostro Signor...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2022

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