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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 BARBER Adagio for Strings

Shostakovich’s music abounds with ambiguities and coded references that beckon to us to read between the lines. In the Fifth...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2018

PENDER Music for Woodwinds

Florida-born, DC-resident Scott Pender (b1959) is nothing if not a composer for the recording age. And a prolific one, at...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2018

MOZART Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Cotik; Israelievitch)

The joyful virtuosity and stylish musicianship that Tomas Cotik and Tao Lin brought to their superb cycle of Schubert’s violin-and-piano...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2018

HAGEN 21st Century Song Cycles

Daron Hagen was Ned Rorem’s first composition student at the Curtis Institute during the early 1980s and this collection of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2018

GIBSON Sky-Born

Mara Gibson writes music filled with all manner of images and associations. The repertoire on this recording was mostly inspired...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2018

Reed Tetzloff: Sounds of Transcendence

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

CRUMB Celestial Mechanics. The Yellow Moon of Andalusia

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

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Fischer)

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

ELGAR Falstaff. Orchestral Songs

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

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Jordan)

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

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