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HAYDN Symphonies (Antonini; Fischer)

The latest volume of Giovanni Antonini’s ever-enticing Haydn cycle takes its title from Symphony No 53, L’Impériale, and couples that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW23

GLASS; VILLA-LOBOS 'Amazonia'

During his sojourn in Paris in the late 1920s, Heitor Villa-Lobos regaled the capital’s musical circles with derring-do tales of...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW23

DUTILLEUX; WEINBERG Cello Concertos (Edgar Moreau)

Hot on the heels of Victor Julien-Laferrière and David Robertson’s recent recording of Henri Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lointain …...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Rattle)

Over quarter of a century separates Simon Rattle’s first recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, made under studio conditions with the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW23

BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra; Viola Concerto (Amihai Grosz)

Having made waves with one of the best Mahler Sevenths of recent times (Alpha, 11/20), this latest Bartók pairing confirms...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW23

MONTEVERDI Vespers (Pygmalion)

This has to be one of the most gripping and impactful recordings of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 available right now....

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: AW23

Turning into Song - A Celebration of Songs by American Composers

In a provocative twist, this new recording captures the results of a commissioning project initiated not by a musician but...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW23

BIEDENBENDER all we are given we cannot hold

Each of the works on this recording of music by David Biedenbender seizes the ear through a blend of expressive...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW23

AYLWARD Oblivion

Is it possible to have a genuine opera in which everybody is dead in the opening scene? Even if the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW23

ADAMS 'Current'

A most welcome addition to the slim Samuel Adams discography, ‘Current’ gathers three chamber music works from the past decade,...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: AW23

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