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Zhenni Li: Mélancholie

Zhenni Li’s new Steinway release is a bolt from the blue. Li holds bachelor and master’s degrees from Juilliard, where...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2018

Rebecca Jeffreys & Alexander Timofeev: Friends in Common Time

Flautist Rebecca Jeffreys and pianist Alexander Timofeev may not always be ‘Friends in Common Time’ on their new disc, given...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2018

STEFFENS Two Cells in Sevilla

The German composer Walter Steffens (b1934) has written in many styles and genres, from the intimate to the extravagant, and...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2018

SISLER All Around the Year

Among the MSR label’s releases devoted to music by the American choral conductor, organist and composer Hampson Sisler (b1932), the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018

SIERRA Kandinsky. Clarinet Sonata

These recordings of music by the Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra (b1953) have a complex history, dating from various points...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018

BLITZSTEIN The Cradle Will Rock

The first complete recording of Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock, restoring the composer’s original 1937 orchestrations, raises the inevitable...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2018

Fuse Ensemble: The Music of Gina Biver

Gina Biver is a musical force of nature: electroacoustic composer, producer, electric guitarist and director of the Washington DC-based Fuse...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018

ABEL Time and Distance

Mark Abel’s fourth CD on Delos is rich in those moments of inspiration when a composer first comes under the...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2018

ROSSINI Semiramide (Elder)

Semiramide is the last, and longest, of the 32 operas Rossini wrote for Italy. Based on Voltaire’s tragedy Sémiramis (1748),...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW18

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Barenboim)

What a difference an orchestra makes: an orchestra, mind you, that has been nurtured and honed for the best part...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW18

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