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JS BACH Keyboard Concertos (Beatrice Rana)

Although Beatrice Rana has dazzled us with her Prokofiev, Chopin and Ravel, she has also recorded a much admired account...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2025

JS BACH The Complete Violin Concertos (James Ehnes)

Blinded by brightness of intonation and the precipitous clarity of bow strokes, I struggled with this album at first. On...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2025

BACEWICZ, LUTOSŁAWSKI, SZYMANOWSKI Orchestral Works (Søndergård)

This album of Polish music has a hidden Beethoven agenda. Grażyna Bacewicz (‘a woman who saved the honour of Polish...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 04/2025

ANSORGE; SAUER Piano Concertos (Oliver Triendl)

Emil Sauer (1862-1942), as he was born, was among Liszt’s most distinguished pupils, a renowned virtuoso, distinguished pedagogue and successful...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2025

PUCCINI Tosca (Harding)

The gods – or at least the A&R gurus at Deutsche Grammophon – were clearly listening when I concluded my...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2025

Le Tre Soprano: The Three Ladies of Ferrara

‘Le Tre Soprano: The Three Ladies of Ferrara’ is much more than a musical portrait of a famous performing group,...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 04/2025

American Woman

The enterprising Virginia-based cellist Juliana Soltis has unearthed little-known cello works by six American female composers. Of the six, the...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 04/2025

ROSNER Music for Symphonic Wind Band

Having been mightily impressed with previous Arnold Rosner albums from Toccata Classics, I approached this newcomer of wind band works...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2025

KOUYOUMDJIAN Witness

Mary Kouyoumdjian has described herself as a ‘composer and documentarian’, but there is certainly more to the Armenian-American’s creative armoury...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2025

PUCCINI Tosca (Gatti)

Florence’s Maggio Musicale used to be one of the great Italian opera houses. Alas no longer. The Fondazione has been...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2025

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