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The Symphonies: A Beethoven Journey (Takács-Nagy)

A Beethoven ‘cycle’ played piecemeal over the course of 14 years, by a band of young musicians changing personnel throughout...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 (Elisabeth Leonskaja)

These Beethoven concertos have waited a while to emerge, having been recorded in 2017 (No 3) and 2018 (No 4)....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2023

JS BACH Keyboard Concertos BWV 1053, 1056, 1067 (Andrew Arthur)

Andrew Arthur’s first volume of Bach harpsichord concertos with The Hanover Band got a mixed review from Mark Seow (9/22),...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 SCHULHOFF Five Pieces (Honeck)

Manfred Honeck has been Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony since 2008, during which time they have released many discs...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2023

Rough Magic

Returning on the subway from a 2015 concert in Brooklyn by Roomful of Teeth, Vivien Schweitzer of The New York...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2023

Cecile Licad: American Dances

The fifth volume of Cecile Licad’s ‘Anthology of American Piano Music’ offers an intriguingly curated programme focusing upon dance. Amy...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2023

HEAP Dillinger

John Dillinger, the American gangster once proclaimed ‘Public Enemy No 1’, is as infamous as Bonnie and Clyde. His brief,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2023

CERRONE In a Grove

'Remembrance’s flawed roughness’ is how Christopher Cerrone describes the narrative ambiguity threaded through this hour-long chamber opera. Based on Ryūnosuke...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2023

Hallelujah Junction

John Adams’s Hallelujah Junction (1996) has had at least half a dozen recordings since the first, by Nicolas Hodges and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2023

POST Concertino á cinque. Piano Quintet

Each of David Post’s superbly written new three-movement quintets adds music of a richly imaginative nature to the repertoire. His...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2023

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