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BEETHOVEN; STRAVINSKY Violin Concertos (Vilde Frang)

This is what can happen when you open the birdcage. In the Beethoven Concerto, Vilde Frang, the freest of spirits,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2022

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Noseda)

Gianandrea Noseda and Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra inaugurate their new Beethoven symphony cycle with this pair of plainspoken performances. Aside...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2022

BYRD Pslames, Songs and Sonnets of 1611

With 2023 marking the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death, you might be expecting a surge in recordings of his...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2022

Two Sides

This is a gripping if curiously conceived album, divided unequally between an entertaining clutch of sinfonias, concertos and trio sonatas...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2022

The Kreutzer Project (The Knights)

Anna Clyne’s quotation from Tolstoy as the inspiration for her Shorthand – ‘music is the shorthand of emotion’ – serves...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2022

TANGUY Chamber Works

Usually, contemporary composers’ works are promoted by one or two labels, but the discography of Éric Tanguy (b1968) is remarkably...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2022

MoonStrike

To say that the works on this recording are out of this world would only be partly accurate, and it’s...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2022

DANIELPOUR Twelve Études For Piano (Stefano Greco)

Richard Danielpour’s Twelve Études may not expand virtuoso boundaries to the extent that Chopin, Liszt, Godowsky and Ligeti did in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2022

MONTEVERDI Orfeo; Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria; L’incoronazione di Poppea (Gardiner)

In 2017 the trilogy of Monteverdi’s operas was toured on both sides of the Atlantic by John Eliot Gardiner and...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW22

Insieme - Opera Duets (Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier)

There have been some great tenor-baritone double acts down the decades. How many people, for instance, were introduced to the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW22

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