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GLUCK Don Juan. Sémiramis (Savall)

Gluck’s record as a reformer doesn’t apply only to opera. In 1761, a year before Orfeo ed Euridice, he was...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2022

BEETHOVEN The Symphonies (Nézet-Séguin)

Keen listeners to the Mozart/da Ponte, Schumann and Mendelssohn cycles from Nézet-Séguin and the COE will find much to enjoy...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2022

JS BACH Keyboard Concertos (Andrew Arthur)

An enjoyably no-nonsense kind of playing makes the opening movement of Bach’s Concerto in D minor, BWV1052, extremely striking. Soloist...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2022

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

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