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TROTTA Seven Last Words

The booklet tells one precious little about this choral cantata but the composer’s website fills in the gaps. Thus, Seven...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2017

S L TAN Revelations

Writing music for friends and colleagues must be one of the greatest joys of the composer’s art. Here it is...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2017

NOWAKOWSKI Blood, Forgotten. String Quartet Nos 1 & 2

The intense emotional worlds the music of Mark Nowakowski inhabits pay tribute to the struggles and enduring spirit of the...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2017

WEISGALL Piano Sonata HINDEMITH Ludus Tonalis

Hindemith’s 1942 contrapuntal tour de force Ludus tonalis turns up less frequently on disc than certain other large-scale piano epics....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2017

GARLAND The Birthday Party

Subtlety is the pervasive quality that pianist Aki Takahashi conveys so luminously on this disc of works by Peter Garland....

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2017

DEBUSSY Études, Books 1 & 2

Among the many composers who have cultivated the piano étude, ranging from Steibelt, Clementi, Hummel, Cramer and Czerny to Ligeti,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2017

R THOMPSON Symphony No 2 BARBER Symphony No 1

This is the second recording by the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, a summer training programme for conservatory students. It’s as...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2017

Arias for Nicolino

The Neapolitan castrato Nicola Grimaldi (1673-1732), nicknamed Nicolino (or Nicolini), studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, first appeared...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2017

WAGNER Parsifal (Fischer)

‘I was not thinking of the Redeemer when I created Parsifal’, wrote Wagner. In ceremonial moments stage director Pierre Audi...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2017

VERDI Otello

After a compelling Cav & Pag in 2015 – released on DVD by Sony Classical, 5/16 – the Salzburg Easter...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2017

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