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MÁRQUEZ Fandango GINASTERA Estancia

With two audience-friendly Latin American composers of different generations plus distinguished soloists conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, how could this album...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2023

BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes ELGAR Violin Concerto (Michael Barenboim)

Mixed feelings about this one, I’m afraid. Entering a fearsomely competitive field, Michael Barenboim unquestionably possesses the virtuosity and stamina...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2023

Clara Robert Johannes: Romance and Counterpoint

This is the fourth, and presumably final, instalment of Alexander Shelley’s series of double albums themed around the musical inter-relationships...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

BRAHMS Double Concerto VIOTTI Violin Concerto DVOŘÁK Silent Woods

The dedication on this album reads ‘In Memoriam Lars Vogt’ – and that gives it a special resonance. Christian Tetzlaff...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2023

BARTÓK Piano Concertos (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)

In Pentatone’s accompanying notes Pierre-Laurent Aimard explains that he has ‘spent a lot of time with Hungarians and their country....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2023

AARØEN, MANOTSKOV, BJØRKLUND 'Arctic Saxophone' (Ola Asdahl Rokkones)

In case of any doubt, the Arctic credentials of this delightful new release are impeccable. Saxophonist Ola Asdahl Rokkones, who...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

OFFENBACH La princesse de Trébizonde (Daniel)

A young man of more-than-usually sensitive disposition falls in love, not with a living, breathing girl but with a beautiful...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2023

Between Breaths

I think I must be predisposed genetically towards music for percussion (hopefully in my next life I am fated to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

JOHNSON De Organizer. The Dreamy Kid

Near the end of the last century, the US Post Office issued a commemorative stamp of the pianist and composer...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 11/2023

BALLARD The Four Moons

For their fourth Naxos album, Arkansas’s Fort Smith Symphony led by music director John Jeter turn their attention from Florence...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2023

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