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MARTINŮ Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra (Josef Špaček, Miroslav Sekera)

Martinů’s eccentric compositional fluency can throw even ardent admirers off the scent. Of the three works included in the present...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW23

MANEEIN; SHOSTAKOVICH Dependent Arising (Rachel Barton Pine)

According to Rachel Barton Pine, ‘There is perhaps no classical composer who is more beloved to metalheads than Shostakovich’. I’m...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW23

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

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