Book review - A Light in the Darkness: The Life and Music of Joaquín Rodrigo (Javier Suárez-Pajares and Walter Aaron Clark)
A Light in the Darkness is a much-needed addition to the limited literature on this composer in...
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Light in the Darkness is a much-needed addition to the limited literature on this composer in...
This unusual network player has ‘lifestyle’ appeal, but packs serious audio and computer technology...
One of McVeigh’s great strengths is his forensic examination of the infrastructure of Edwardian...
‘It’s a sizeable sum to lay out at one shot, but given the quality – and quantity – of what’s on...
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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