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TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto (Maxim Vengerov)

Watch closely during the audience shots on this taping of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s Lucerne Festival debut in 2017 and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019

ANDRE hij (Chiacchiarini)

In the 1960s, ever speculative, Stockhausen proposed the idea of ‘coloured silence’. With, say, a wind player, this meant blowing...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2019

Duo Fantasy

Duo526 were formed in 2011 by the Canadian violinist Kerry DuWors and Japanese pianist Futaba Niekawa while in Charles Castleman’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019

American Reflections

In 2017 the St Charles Singers, 31-strong and drawing on Chicago area professionals, toured England with a programme of music...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2019

CERVETTI Parallel Realms

Sergio Cervetti (b1940) is an American composer but his origins lie in Uruguay. He was a pupil of Krenek, among...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019

American Rapture

The Rochester Philharmonic’s excellent calling card features premiere recordings of Jennifer Higdon’s Harp Concerto, starring Yolanda Kondonassis, and Patrick Harlin’s...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2019

OFFENBACH The Operas & Operettas Collection

Offenbach’s music is wicked’, said George Bernard Shaw. ‘It is abandoned stuff; every accent is a snap of the fingers...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2019

HAYDN Complete Symphonies (Vienna Chamber Orchestr, Maerzendorfer)

Haydn symphony cycles on disc have had an uneasy history, one that has often been pregnant with expectation but littered...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019

VINCI Siroe, Re di Persia (Florio)

This is a follow-up to Dynamic’s recordings of Partenope (10/12) and Didone abbandonata (10/17). Siroe was staged at the Teatro...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2019

VERDI Attila (Mariotti)

There’s a nagging feeling here that the wrong Attila has made it to DVD. In December 2018 Riccardo Chailly conducted...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 08/2019

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