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Boris Tishchenko’s last numbered symphony, composed two years before his death in 2010 (a ninth was left unfinished), is a...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017
In a foreword to the booklet-notes for this new BIS release, superstar trombonist and composer turned conductor Christian Lindberg writes...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2017
Ludovic Morlot has garnered great reviews with the Seattle Symphony and it’s clear to hear why in a fine, purposeful...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017
In a market crammed with recordings of Má vlast – several as historically significant as they are musically penetrating –...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2017
Although not trumpeted anywhere on the sleeve, the booklet-notes claim Linus Roth’s recording as ‘the original echt Tchaikovsky version’ of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017
Of this pairing of Shostakovich’s two violin concertos, it is Frank Peter Zimmermann’s performance of the First which will raise...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017
The album’s title implies some form of pioneering research but in fact indicates that Jan Vogler, Intendant of the Dresden...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2017
Erwin Schulhoff’s Second Piano Concerto of 1923 is a strange beast, opening among chiming solo figurations, with woodwinds intoning above...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017
This is a fascinating slant on an effective arrangement, though the unhelpfully reverberant recording rather mitigates against total enjoyment. In...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017
I’d read chatter on the internet talking up Matthias Pintscher’s 2012 Bereshit, his 30-minute composition for large ensemble, as a...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2017
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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
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Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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