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MARTINŮ Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 BARTÓK Sonata for Solo Violin (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

Despite the eminence of the coupling of the Bartók Solo Sonata, the two Martinů concertos are the main event on...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2021

Quatra Duo: Painted Music

This is a deceptively straightforward disc, intended primarily as the debut recording of this husband-and-wife duo. It even opens with...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020

STROZZI Opus 8, 1664 Part 1

This splendid and authoritative recital by Elissa Edwards and Richard Kolb of arias and cantatas from Barbara Strozzi’s last published...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2020

LI World Map (Four Corners Ensemble)

Shuying Li (b1989) is a Chinese-born, American-resident composer. She studied initially at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music but won a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020

GOLIJOV Falling Out of Time

Though conceived and created well before the pandemic, Osvaldo Golijov’s latest collaboration with Silkroad Ensemble seems uncannily well suited to...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 12/2020

ADAMS Lines Made by Walking

Patrick Kilbey’s Contemporary Composers profile (2/18) of John Luther Adams (b1953) remains the best general introduction to the music of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020

RAMEAU Les Boréades (Luks)

Much uncertainty surrounds the origins of Rameau’s last opera. It used to be thought that it was withdrawn when the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2020

PUCCINI Il Tabarro (Janowski)

When reviewing Marek Janowski’s Dresden Philharmonic Cavalleria rusticana (8/20), Hugo Shirley noted that the conductor ‘hardly gets down and dirty...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2020

O'REGAN The Phoenix (Summers)

Opera about opera is a dangerous business when the art form needs to emphasise its relevance and broaden its reach,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2020

MONTEVERDI L'Orfeo (Toro)

It is both in keeping with a sense of attention to historical detail, as well as something of a personal...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 12/2020

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