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BACEWICZ Piano Concertos (Peter Jablonski, Elisabeth Brauss)

Grażyna Bacewicz: all those harsh consonants, suggestive of jagged edges and perhaps a certain defiant wilfulness – qualities shared by...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2023

HANDEL Serse (Bicket)

This animated and engaging recording, captured with clarity, might perhaps finally please the Fourth Earl of Shaftesbury, who bemoaned the...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2023

SIERRA Symphony No 6 (Hindoyan)

Roberto Sierra (b1953) composed his Sinfonietta for string orchestra (2020) and Sixth Symphony (2022) expressly for Domingo Hindoyan – the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2023

CORIGLIANO Complete Piano Works (Philip Edward Fisher)

It’s difficult to imagine a more New York composer than John Corigliano or, for that matter, to imagine New York’s...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2023

BLAND Piano Sonatas (Kevin Gorman)

US composer William Bland (b1947) uses ‘sonata’ as the title of both multi-movement works and the term becomes a sort...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 07/2023

AXELROD '5x4'

The concept here is five (relatively recent) quartets, all constituted very diversely, performed by five different ensembles, but all the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023

Nicolò Balducci: Amore Dolore

A fabulous opening from Baroque Academy Gothenburg Symphony. The scene from Riccardo Broschi’s Artaserse fizzes with life, though it’s a...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2023

STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos (Gatti)

This staging of Ariadne auf Naxos from Florence’s Maggio Musicale starts with a striking – not to say disturbing –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2023

ROTA Il Cappello Di Paglia Di Firenze (Squeo)

This appears to be the first digital recording of Nino Rota’s 1955 comedy after a French play by Eugène Labiche...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2023

ROSSINI L'Italiana in Algeri (Andretta)

It’s possible that in future times this set will be something of a collector’s item, thanks to the Isabella of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2023

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