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BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Blomstedt)

It seems that at 92, with recordings of all of the Schubert and Sibelius symphonies and two cycles each of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2. Capriccios & Intermezzos (Anna Tsybuleva)

If Anna Tsybuleva’s name rings a bell, you may recall her as winner of the 2015 Leeds Piano Competition –...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2021

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 MÉHUL Les Amazones Overture (Roth)

Initial impressions – an audaciously spread opening pair of chords – suggest a symphonie funèbre et triomphale, minus the jingling...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2021

Russian Spectacular (Singapore Symphony Orchestra)

Surely here was an opportunity to stray a little from the well-trodden path and offer perhaps Mussorgsky’s startling original version...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2021

JS BACH The Overtures BWV 1066-1069 (Original versions)

In December 2019 Lindsay Kemp called Rinaldo Alessandrini’s recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites perhaps ‘the danciest ever’. There’s a new...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concertos (Schiff)

As with Schiff’s Schubert Sonatas and Impromptus for ECM New Series (6/19), so his Brahms concertos, self-directed from a restored...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2021

Beyza Yazgan : To Anatolia

The most familiar groups of composers linked by nationality are probably the ‘Russian Five’ and the French ‘Les Six’. On...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2021

Archetypes

This very cool collection of tours de force takes a random selection of archetypal themes composed and collaboratively performed by...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2021

KRISTINSSON Moonbow

The earliest composition in Gunnar Andreas Kristinsson’s catalogue (at least on his website) is a song for mixed choir from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2021

KANDER dwb (driving while black)

If Susan Kander and Roberta Gumbel’s dwb (driving while black) had premiered as scheduled two months before the death of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2021

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