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HINDEMITH Four Temperaments SCHNITTKE Concerto for Piano and Strings (Anna Gourari)

Her ECM recitals ‘Visions fugitives’ (2/15) and ‘Elusive Affinity’ (9/19) defined Anna Gourari as a pianist on a mission, while...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2024

GRIEG; C SCHUMANN Piano Concertos (Alexandra Dariescu)

Alexandra Dariescu is celebrated as a creative programmer dedicated to music by women composers; and this inventive combination, which revitalises...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2024

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. American Suite (Stutzmann)

The distinguished contralto turned award-winning conductor has made a splash with her new orchestra in Atlanta. And now we can...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 BATES Resurrexit

‘I find it impossible to separate Bruckner from his deep spiritual beliefs’, writes Manfred Honeck in his notes for this...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (1888. Schaller)

As with Markus Poschner’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies for Capriccio, Gerd Schaller’s series of recordings for Profil aims to...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2024

M BROUWER Rhapsodies (Alsop)

As Donald Rosenberg noted (6/22US) of a previous album of hers, ‘Margaret Brouwer covers a lot of emotional territory in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024

BRAHMS The Symphonies (Nézet-Séguin)

Numerous chamber orchestras have recorded the Brahms symphonies over the past quarter of a century. My favourite features the Chamber...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2024

BLISS Music for Brass Band

I don’t know whose idea this album was, but it was a good one. We hear too little of the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024

JS BACH Keyboard Concertos (Tianqi Du)

>Thirty-two-year-old Chinese pianist Tianqi Du has been devoting his early career to Bach, and boldly chose the Goldberg Variations for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2024

The Kurt Weill Album

Joana Mallwitz’s first recording for the yellow label is something of a triumph. The programme is generous and will hopefully...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2024

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