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Sarah Willis: Mozart y Mambo

Sarah Willis is hardly the first to put a Cuban spin on classical works. But where, say, the Klazz Brothers’...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

Lisa Batiashvili: City Lights

The idea for this recording came out of a casual conversation between fellow Georgians Lisa Batiashvili and Nikoloz Rachveli about...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

L’Heure Bleue; Hildegard, Hersant, Hartmann, Shostakovich

If I’ve unpacked it right, there are two converging strands to this project: the atmosphere of ‘that fleeting moment between...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

VIEUXTEMPS Works for Violin & Orchestra (Reto Kuppel)

Given that there’s generally a reason why flashy early 19th-century miniatures penned by their era’s virtuoso soloists haven’t made it...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2020

VASKS Distant Light. Piano Quartet. Summer Dances (Lintu)

Distant Light is surely the most-recorded violin concerto by a living composer, with almost enough versions listed on the streaming...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4. LESHNOFF Double Concerto (Honeck)

In a brief but perspicacious essay on the Tchaikovsky symphonies, Hans Keller argues that the composer’s ‘individual contribution to the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

STRAUSS Rosenkavalier Suite. Tod und Verklärung. Macbeth (Shui)

Following his well-regarded series of Debussy recordings for BIS, Lan Shui’s latest release finds the Hangzhou-born conductor equally at home...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra. Don Juan. Till Eulenspiegel

Here’s a handsome Straussian showcase from Krzysztof Urbański and the rebranded NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester – although these live recordings were...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 (Karabits)

It’s a while since someone had the bright idea of bagging a multi-maestro Shostakovich symphony cycle from Mikhail Pletnev’s Russian...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2020

SAWYERS Symphony No 4. Hommage to Kandinsky (Woods)

Like all great symphonists, Philip Sawyers approaches symphonic form from a different direction in each work. Nos 1 (2004; 2/11)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

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