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Review of BEN-HAIM Evocation

BEN-HAIM Evocation

Leonard Bernstein’s recording of The Sweet Psalmist of Israel helped to keep his name alive but the music of Paul...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2019

Review of BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (WDR Symphony/Saraste)

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (WDR Symphony/Saraste)

From the early days of its work with Klemperer, Wand and Rosbaud, and then the ’60s tenure of Christoph von...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2019

Review of Robert Casadesus: Complete Columbia Album Collection

Robert Casadesus: Complete Columbia Album Collection

Outside France, Robert Casadesus (1899-1972) was arguably the best-known French pianist of his generation, one whose artistry has long warranted...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2019

Review of Seiji Ozawa: Complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

Seiji Ozawa: Complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

I was born and raised in Boston, so I feel as if I grew up with Seiji Ozawa, musically speaking....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

Review of Janoska Ensemble: Revolution

Janoska Ensemble: Revolution

This second album from the three brothers from Bratislava and their brother-in-law from Switzerland may hardly be revolutionary but it’s...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2019

Review of PALESTRINA Miss Tu es Petrus (Shuler)

PALESTRINA Miss Tu es Petrus (Shuler)

This radiant new Palestrina recital from the Greenwich Village-based Choir of St Luke in the Fields commands tonal beauty and...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2019

Review of LIANG A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams

LIANG A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams

Lei Liang (b1972) was born in China then in the grip of the Cultural Revolution, but left to study in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2019

Review of T HARRIS A Warm Day in Winter

T HARRIS A Warm Day in Winter

Naxos’s American Classics series turns to Truman Harris (b1945), his tenures as bassoonist in Washington’s National Symphony and Eclipse Chamber...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2019

Review of Carolyn Sampson: Reason in Madness

Carolyn Sampson: Reason in Madness

‘There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness’, Nietzsche wrote. His words...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2019

Review of Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible

Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible

Clouds of doubt may have recently gathered around Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator mundi – the most expensive painting in the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2019


 

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