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Review of Sergio Sorrentino: Dream

Sergio Sorrentino: Dream

The art-music repertoire for electric guitar is not extensive, a smattering of concertos aside (not least Fuchs’s Glacier – Naxos,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019

Review of Bruce Levingston: Citizen

Bruce Levingston: Citizen

When Bruce Levingston was invited to give a recital for the opening of the Civil Rights museum in his home...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019

Review of VOLLRATH Souls in Transitions

VOLLRATH Souls in Transitions

Carl Vollrath (b1931) was a new name to me when this delightful disc of piano trios dropped through my letterbox....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019

Review of QUAYLE String Quartets Nos 1-3 (Avalon String Quartet)

QUAYLE String Quartets Nos 1-3 (Avalon String Quartet)

Now in his early forties, Matthew Quayle has amassed a catalogue of almost 50 works in a range of genres....

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2019

Review of CARPENTER From the Valley of Baca

CARPENTER From the Valley of Baca

David Owen Carpenter (b1972) was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, though is now resident in Philadelphia, and is an alumnus of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019

Review of ANDERSON-BAZZOLI Continent's End

ANDERSON-BAZZOLI Continent's End

Nearly everything about this disc arrives like a bolt out of the blue. The poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was quite...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2019

Review of French Cello Concertos. Russian Cello Concertos

French Cello Concertos. Russian Cello Concertos

As debut solo albums go, the Korean cellist Hee-Young Lim’s Abbey Road-recorded programme of French cello concertos – with the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019

Review of Lucie Horsch: Baroque Journey

Lucie Horsch: Baroque Journey

What a welcome sight it has been for a second disc from Decca’s young Dutch recorder champion Lucie Horsch to...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019

Review of TIPPETT Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Brabbins)

TIPPETT Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Brabbins)

The Tippett who wrote the Third and Fourth Symphonies between 1970 and 1977 was, inevitably, a rather different composer from...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2019

Review of DUN Violin Concertos (Eldbjørg Hemsing)

DUN Violin Concertos (Eldbjørg Hemsing)

Whoever said that old forms were dead? The concerto has enjoyed a new lease of life during the past few...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2019


 

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