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Lee Hinkle: Modern American Percussion Concerti

This rather attractive album highlights the virtuosity of American percussionist Lee Hinkle, principal percussionist of the 21st Century Consort (based...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2024

David Potvin: Catharsis

The debut album by David Potvin – a young, prize-winning pianist based in Montreal – reveals a strong affinity for...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 06/2024

Motion Studies

The Crossing, the sterling Philadelphia-based chamber choir, continue their exploration of social and environmental issues with ‘Motion Studies’, a vibrant...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2024

ADAMS City Noir. Fearful Symmetries. Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance (Alsop)

You wouldn’t want to be going out at night in Los Angeles after listening to Adams’s City noir. Dark, menacing...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY None but the Lonely Heart. Tchaikovsky songs staged by Christoph Loy

Necessity is the mother of invention. In the spring of 2021, Christof Loy was supposed to direct a new production...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2024

STANFORD Shamus O'Brien (Parry)

Remember when we used to be told that there was no significant British opera between Purcell and Britten? If there...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2024

ROSSINI Le Siège de Corinthe (Abbado)

Rossini’s Le siège de Corinthe, written for the Paris Opéra in 1826, was a game-changer in the history of opera....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2024

PERGOLESI Livietta e Tracollo (Mealy)

Pergolesi’s two frothy intermezzi originated as light relief between the acts of opere serie (18th-century Neapolitan audiences demanded, and got,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024

MORAVEC The Shining (Schwarz)

I saw Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining sometime in the early 1980s, had nightmares for weeks afterwards and have seen...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024

BUSONI Doktor Faust (Meister)

‘World premiere on video’ announces Dynamic’s cover of this release of Busoni’s magnificent but problematic operatic masterpiece. It’s a false...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024

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