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BEDNALL Stabat Mater

This is the fourth Regent CD to feature music by David Bednall (b1979), one of Britain’s leading choral composers. The...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW16

Pierre Hantaï: SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas

That this is the fourth volume of Scarlatti sonatas by Pierre Hantaï reminds us that he is no newcomer to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW16

CHOPIN Mazurkas

Chopin is far and away the most popular among his coevals, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt, and much of his music...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW16

MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Nos 3 & 5

Any quartet that wins a Grammy for a disc of Ligeti quartets gets my attention, and the Boston-based Parker Quartet...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16

DEAN Shadow Music

This superb new release in BIS’s series devoted to Brett Dean takes its name of the longest piece in the...

Reviewed in issue AW16

COPLAND Symphonies

In contrast with the first instalment of Chandos’s series of Copland’s orchestral music (3/16), which focused on the popular ballets,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW16

Arabella Steinbacher: Fantasies, Rhapsodies and Daydreams

Were someone to ask me to suggest a disc to introduce them to the violin, I might well steer them...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16

STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie

The booklet-note for this release makes some bold claims regarding Kent Nagano’s account of Eine Alpensinfonie with his Gothenburg orchestra....

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW16

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1

‘Vengeance is mine, I shall repay’ is grimly inscribed on the opening page of Rachmaninov’s First Symphony. Each movement opens...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW16

PUTS Symphony No 2. Flute Concerto

Kevin Puts’s music has an optimism and directness that, at least on its surface, harks back to mid-century American composers...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16

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