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Review of ÍSÓLFSSON; VIÐAR Icelandic Works for the Stage (Gamba)

ÍSÓLFSSON; VIÐAR Icelandic Works for the Stage (Gamba)

While Jón Leifs was flitting between Reykjavik and Berlin there were Icelandic composers who stayed put – or at least...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2023

Review of GOMES Opera Overtures and Preludes

GOMES Opera Overtures and Preludes

Born in Campinas, Brazil, Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836 96) studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Rio de Janeiro before a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023

Review of ELFMAN Violin Concerto 'Eleven Eleven' HAILSTORK Piano Concerto No 1

ELFMAN Violin Concerto 'Eleven Eleven' HAILSTORK Piano Concerto No 1

It’s second time around for soloist Sandy Cameron in Danny Elfman’s Concerto for amplified violin and orchestra (the subtitle Eleven...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2023

Review of BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Thielemann)

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Thielemann)

Christian Thielemann’s Bruckner cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra continues apace with this refined performance of the Ninth Symphony, recorded...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2023

Review of BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Roth)

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Roth)

This is a superb account of the original 1874 version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, first published in 1975 in Leopold...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2023

Review of AHO Violin Concerto No 2. Cello Concerto No 2

AHO Violin Concerto No 2. Cello Concerto No 2

He may be best known for his 17 symphonies but Kalevi Aho (b1949) has also written 38 concertos that, between...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2023

Review of ADÈS Dante (Dudamel)

ADÈS Dante (Dudamel)

We’ve had a whiff of Thomas Adès’s ballet score Dante in Gramophone’s pages before. Last year I reviewed a performance...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2023

Review of GESUALDO Madrigali, Books 5 & 6

GESUALDO Madrigali, Books 5 & 6

At the end of a multi-volume survey such as this, one inevitably reflects on the whole project as much as...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2023

Review of Permutations

Permutations

There is a fascinating dichotomy at the heart of this album, one that – for once – produces positive results...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023

Review of I and Thou

I and Thou

That the 21st century seems not only to have liberated cello duos but unleashed them is amply demonstrated by VC2,...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2023


 

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