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DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Martin)

When David Patrick Stearns reviewed the first release on the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s own label – Debussy and Strauss orchestral...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2025

DENNEHY Land of Winter

Donnacha Dennehy’s first album for Nonesuch, ‘Grá agus Bás’ (8/11), engaged with Ireland’s rich cultural and musical heritage, while his...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2025

COULT 'Pieces that Disappear'

As suggested by this album’s title, Tom Coult’s compositions often engage with presence and absence – especially how music shapes...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2025

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos (Alexander Lonquich)

In his booklet note, pianist and conductor Alexander Lonquich writes that this recording grew out of his long and cordial...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2025

VIVALDI Sacro Furore: Stabat Mater, Nisi Dominus, Concerti

It’s an exciting and bold statement to release such a well-explored programme, a move that invites multiple comparisons, and in...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2025

HAILSTORK Chamber Works

The Harlem Chamber Players – a collective of several dozen musicians named after the Upper Manhattan community they serve –...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2025

Crimson Roses: Contemporary American Choral Music

On what she has said is her last recording, Frederica von Stade applies her distinctive shine and tenderness to ‘Perhaps’,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 01/2025

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique (Welser-Möst)

It’s fascinating how quickly the tone of a recorded performance establishes itself. There’s a luxuriance about this reading both in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2025

JL ADAMS Atlas of Deep Time

Surface and depth have formed important elements in John Luther Adams’s music – whether in conveying the unforgiving landscapes of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2025

Nathan Granner: Ombre di luce

Nathan Granner is an American singer in his 40s who has made a career, to quote his website, as ‘a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2024

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