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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

Lise Davidsen: Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi

‘I’ll be 34 by the time it’s released’, Lise Davidsen says in the booklet for her second solo album, ‘so...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2021

WEBER 'The Freischütz Project' (Equilbey)

Rooted in folk song and Teutonic peasant myth, Weber’s opera with the famously untranslatable title is the epitome of German...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2021

WAGNER Lohengrin (Meister)

Arguably Lohengrin remains one of Wagner’s most problematic operas to stage today, walking a tightrope between aggrandising and critiquing ideas...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2021

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