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BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Darlings of the Muses

The big news here is the terrific playing of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra. The strings, polished during Pinchas Zukerman’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2020

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Jordan)

If you read Rainer Lepuschitz’s extensive booklet note before listening to these performances, as I did, you too may be...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2020

Divina: Sacred Music by Biber and Schmelzer

There are some standout moments on this album. First there is the superlative singing of Jonathan Sells in Biber’s Nisi...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4 BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Haitink)

Towards the end of what became his adieu to the podium, Bernard Haitink led the Seventh Symphony of Bruckner with...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 & 2 CPE BACH Symphonies (Forck)

I approached these performances with some trepidation, as the lovely promise shown in the opening movements of the Akademie für...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4. Overtures (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

Here we are: instalment three of a series that so far has been one of the finest ornaments of Beethoven’s...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2020

BRITTEN Peter Grimes (Gardner)

You could now round up more than a baker’s dozen recorded versions officially released of Grimes in all formats, visual...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2020

Jorge Federico Osorio: The French Album

I confess that before this I had not encountered Jorge Federico Osorio (born Mexico, 1951) but on this hearing I...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2020

Igor Levit: Encounter

Bach meets Brahms, with Busoni and Reger as enablers, and they all meet Feldman thanks to Igor Levit. The chorale...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2020

RAVEL Piano Music (Ann Martin-Davis)

Ann Martin-Davis’s new disc of Ravel, subtitled ‘The Language of Flowers’, is anchored by the Valses nobles et sentimentales and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2020

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