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The John Adams Edition

Like its politics, the buffeting turbulence of culture in the United States today is difficult to describe to anyone who...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2018

SCHUMANN Four Symphonies

Recordings of Schumann’s symphonies have recently tended towards the small-scale, with chamber orchestras and often period manners, as witness the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2017

The King's Singers: Gold

In 1967 six choral scholars from Cambridge founded a singing group and accidentally started a phenomenon. Photos of the original King’s...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017

JS BACH Mass BWV233. Magnificat BWV243a

This is Gardiner’s second recording of the Christmas Cantata No 151, which dates from Bach’s golden period of cantata composition, two years...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017

DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande (Rattle)

This is a takeover from Berlin of a Peter Sellars platform staging of Debussy’s opera. Sellars’s directing of the cast (identical in...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2017

BERLIOZ Les Troyens (Nelson)

Hector Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troyens has been lucky on disc. Complete recordings have been few but they’ve tended to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

Philip Martin: Once more with feeling...

Philip Martin is a fine pianist, as anyone will attest who has in their collection his invaluable account of the complete...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017

Cliburn Gold 2017: Yekwon Sunwoo

The Van Cliburn International Competition does not have a great history of choosing winners. The 28-year-old Yekwon Sunwoo from South Korea...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017

Jorge Bolet

As the booklet essay reminds us, Jorge Bolet’s ascent to the top was painfully slow. Throughout the late 1940s and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 16 & 21

I’m not sure if these 2006 recordings have previously been released in the West but they provide my first exposure...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017

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