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BRAHMS The Symphonies (Nézet-Séguin)

Numerous chamber orchestras have recorded the Brahms symphonies over the past quarter of a century. My favourite features the Chamber...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2024

BLISS Music for Brass Band

I don’t know whose idea this album was, but it was a good one. We hear too little of the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024

JS BACH Keyboard Concertos (Tianqi Du)

>Thirty-two-year-old Chinese pianist Tianqi Du has been devoting his early career to Bach, and boldly chose the Goldberg Variations for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2024

The Kurt Weill Album

Joana Mallwitz’s first recording for the yellow label is something of a triumph. The programme is generous and will hopefully...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2024

American Voices

This is the second instalment in the Pacifica Quartet’s three-disc project exploring the ‘sounds of America’ in anticipation of the...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2024

WOLLSCHLEGER Between Breath

‘Between Breath’, the New Focus label’s fourth release devoted to music by Scott Wollschleger, contains four premieres written over a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2024

IYER Trouble (Jennifer Koh)

Having released upwards of 20 albums over a period of nearly 30 years, primarily for his own jazz quartet and...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024

BECK Requiem (Scott)

Composers grapple with the subject of death in myriad ways, most directly through settings of the Requiem Mass or variations...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2024

ZEMLINSKY Eine florentinische Tragödie (Hahn. Albrecht)

There’s something grimly irresistible about Zemlinsky’s short and sharp Eine florentinische Tragödie (premiered in 1917). Based on Oscar Wilde’s fragmentary...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2024

ROSSINI Ermione (Fogliani)

This is the best recording we have yet had of Ermione, Rossini’s Classically inspired masterwork derived from Racine’s Andromaque, the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2024

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