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Review of LINDBERG Accused. 2 Episodes

LINDBERG Accused. 2 Episodes

Lindberg’s Accused sets three transcripts from real-life interrogations. Indecipherability of the words dogged the piece when it was premiered in...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2020

Review of ICHMOURATOV Symphony 'On the Ruins of an Ancient Fort'

ICHMOURATOV Symphony 'On the Ruins of an Ancient Fort'

Airat Ichmouratov (b1973) is a Tatarstan-born, Canadian-resident composer. He has lived in Montreal since the 1990s but his musical roots...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020

Review of HAYDN Cello Concertos (Natalie Clein)

HAYDN Cello Concertos (Natalie Clein)

Period performance isn’t necessarily something naturally associated with the British cellist Natalie Clein but this live recording of Haydn’s two...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2020

Review of Cello Libris: Works by Geoffrey Gordon

Cello Libris: Works by Geoffrey Gordon

This is apparently the first release to be dedicated to Geoffrey Gordon (b1968), though the composer has built up a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020

Review of ELGAR Cello Concerto CLYNE Dance (Inbal Segev)

ELGAR Cello Concerto CLYNE Dance (Inbal Segev)

I’m struggling to remember the last time a piece of contemporary music made me cry. Ten weeks of solitary lockdown...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020

Review of DUBRA Symphony No 2. Mystery of His Birth

DUBRA Symphony No 2. Mystery of His Birth

In the extended interview with Dāvis Eņģelis contained in the accompanying booklet to this disc, Rihards Dubra discusses many aspects...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2020

Review of DEBUSSY Images. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Elder)

DEBUSSY Images. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Elder)

‘Well written, but with that skill born of habit that one has so much difficulty conquering and which is so...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2020

Review of BRUCH Symphonies Nos 1-3 (Trevino)

BRUCH Symphonies Nos 1-3 (Trevino)

Poor old Max Bruch: a composer born to spin long lyrical melodies in a culture that demanded that its symphonists...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020

Review of BEETHOVEN Symphonies (Trevino)

BEETHOVEN Symphonies (Trevino)

Recorded live, it says on the back of the box, and you can tell: not by the concluding applause, which...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2020

Review of ADÈS In Seven Days (Kirill Gerstein)

ADÈS In Seven Days (Kirill Gerstein)

In Seven Days is the serious piano-and-orchestra work to Adès’s more display-orientated Piano Concerto (DG, 5/20), in which sense it...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2020


 

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