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BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Honeck)

Grafting local vines on to European rootstock is how the great American orchestras were first established and how many continue...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2021

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 7. The Creatures of Prometheus (von der Goltz)

Right from the generously spread opening chord, this is a Seventh with its roots in the 18th century, evoking a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2021

BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin. Suite No 2 (Dausgaard)

Listening to Bartók’s chilling ‘pantomime grotesque’ The Miraculous Mandarin – complete – in a performance as good as this one...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2021

CPE BACH 'Beyond the Limits' Complete String Symphonies

‘Beyond the Limits’ is the title of this album; and anyone who imagines CPE Bach as a diligent plodder at...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2021

Proust, Le Concert Retrouvé

On July 1, 1907, Marcel Proust hosted a private concert at the Ritz in Paris in honour of Gaston Calmette,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2021

PUCKETT; SPEARS; TULEV The Tower and the Garden

The Crossing are a leading chamber choir, comprising 24 singers, who won Grammy Awards in 2018 and 2019 for two...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2021

PHILLIPS The Grey Land

Joseph C Phillips Jr’s immersive multimedia opera The Grey Land takes its title from Richard Wright’s novel of alienation, Native...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2021

Bruits (Imani Winds)

Musicians have felt an increasing urgency over the past year to become engaged with issues of social justice. Imani Winds...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 04/2021

Uncovered, Vol 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

The Catalyst Quartet certainly live up to their name. The musicians are devoted to changing the way audiences perceive classical...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2021

CARL White Heron

Aficionados of contemporary music will already be familiar with the name Robert Carl as a writer. He has authored extensive...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 04/2021

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