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Presteigne Premieres: New Music for String Orchestra

If not the highest-profile conductor of his generation, George Vass has an enviable record in commissioning and premiering music by...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2021

Emmanuel Pahud: Mozart & Flute in Paris

It would be all too easy, from a cursory glance at the bolded title alone, to assume that Emmanuel Pahud’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2021

Rick Stotijn: Back To StockHome

Rick Stotijn has done sterling work persuading treble-clef dwellers that double bass albums can sing and dance, but there’s a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2021

YE Winter

BIS’s second album devoted to the music of Chinese composer Xiaogang Ye (b1955) includes two works from the early part...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2021

VIVALDI The Four Seasons (Christian Li)

Christian Li may not yet be a familiar name to Gramophone readers but 1.8 million YouTube viewers have watched his...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2021

TOWER Strike Zones

This is the fifth disc Naxos has released devoted wholly to ‘the Power of Tower’ – though Joan Tower’s music...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2021

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 4, 5 & 8 (Jacobs; Holliger)

One commodity that is never in short supply in René Jacobs and B’Rock’s Schubert symphony survey is excitement. Period strings...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2021

M RICHTER Exiles

Max Richter’s recordings are often based on a central concept or idea – Vivaldi in The Four Seasons Recomposed (2/13),...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2021

PISTON Concerto for Orchestra

A colleague of mine once described Walter Piston as the American Albert Roussel. The comparison befits Piston’s neoclassical orientation and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2021

MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 3 & 4 (Francesca Dego)

The opening tutti of K216 sets the template: lucid textures underpinned by a light, athletic bass line, springy rhythms and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2021

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