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Young & Foolish: Mozart & CPE Bach

A ‘very singular double concerto’ is how Richard Bratby described CPE Bach’s work for two keyboards in an interview in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2024

Bertrand Chamayou 'Cage2'

It’s over 30 years since Cage’s death in 1992, yet opinions remain divided about the American composer’s music and his...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2024

Wide As Heaven: A Century of Song By Black American Composers

This album’s wonderfully varied programme is more than a showcase for baritone James Martin’s engrossing artistry or a historical survey....

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 07/2024

ZWILICH Symphony No 5 (Rose)

Throughout a long and fertile career, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has created works rich in character and emotion, and marked by...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2024

THOMSON Piano Portraits (Craig Rutenberg)

Virgil Thomson’s more than 150 musical portraits span 60 years of creative activity. With few exceptions, he composed them in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7 LUDWIG Violin Concerto (Bella Hristova)

Though there’s much ingratiating listening here, the Buffalo Philharmonic’s self-produced disc is most important as a calling card to show...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY The Enchantress (Uryupin)

The Enchantress (1887) is among Tchaikovsky’s least‑known, least-performed mature operas, yet it was the one he considered his finest. Set...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2024

PUTS The Hours (Nézet-Séguin)

So far, The Hours has polarised opera audiences. For some, it’s an enveloping fusion of intricate dramaturgy and symphonic orchestration....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2024

PUCCINI Manon Lescaut (Villaume)

The Davide Livermore production is the primary appeal of this Manon Lescaut DVD: dramaturgical problems are successfully addressed in an...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2024

Golda Schultz: Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!

La povera ragazza, è pazza, amici miei. ‘The poor girl, my friends, has lost her mind’, confides Don Giovanni to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2024

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