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Charles Tomlinson Griffes and the painter Mary Cassatt are the two most noteworthy Impressionists America produced. Yet Griffes’s now century-old...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2018
It has been George Crumb’s good fortune to possess both potent genes and a fertile imagination; his myriad beneficiaries include...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2018
Adam Fischer launched his Dusseldorf Mahler cycle with an accomplished and individual account of the nighthawkish Seventh Symphony. I commented...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2017
This is Andrew Davis’s third recording of Elgar’s Falstaff. It is, not to beat about the bush, a superbly perceptive...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2018
Though the Vienna Philharmonic has recorded many Beethoven cycles, the city’s distinguished second orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, has found less...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2018
You may be inclined to adjust your set from the very opening, and you should: the disc demands a high...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2018
Nathalie Stutzmann identifies a ‘Madeleine’ moment for her in this recording, recalling that Caldara’s ‘Sebben crudele’ was ‘the first aria...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017
When does an album become a project? Perhaps when it is spread over two CDs, as Matthias Goerne and Daniel...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2018
A bizarre concept: a 50th-anniversary celebration of Karajan’s Salzburg Easter Festival by his major disciple Christian Thielemann which comprises a...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2018
In a short booklet essay, the director of this Fliegende Holländer, Àlex Ollé, tells us that he and his creative...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2018
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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