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KNEHANS Unfinished Earth. Tempest

There are many really fine American composers for orchestra at the moment, though few have the international presence of, say,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2018

RACHMANINOV Variations on a Theme of Corelli LISZT Paganini Etudes

Many pianists, I suspect, would envy the long résumé of recital dates, chamber music collaborations and teaching credits mentioned in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (McDermott)

Anne-Marie McDermott’s second release for Bridge devoted to Haydn further testifies to her masterful affinity for the composer’s style, as...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018

BUCH String Quartets: From the River Flow the Stars

A cursory glance at the titles of these string quartets – all part of larger compositional series – might suggest...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018

BERLIOZ Requiem (Falletta)

The ideal way to take in the wonders of the Berlioz Requiem is to attend a performance in a concert...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2018

JL ADAMS everything that rises

Everything That Rises (2017) is John Luther Adams’s fourth string quartet, following close on the heels of untouched (2015). In...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2018

Filippo Mineccia: Siface; L’amor castrato

Filippo Mineccia’s new recital takes as its starting point the circumstances surrounding the death, on May 29, 1697, of the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018

WAGNER Das Rheingold (Elder)

The third instalment of the Hallé’s slowly assembling Ring cycle – this episode from a concert and rehearsals in November...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2018

VERDI Un giorno di regno (Bosch)

Un giorno di regno was Verdi’s only opera buffa, an early work composed in 1840 and a far cry from...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2018

SMYTH The Wreckers

This historic first recording of Ethel Smyth’s masterpiece The Wreckers derives from a meticulously prepared 1994 Henry Wood Promenade Concert,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2018

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