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Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
A dream team in the making, I suspect. Capuçon and Pappano may be collaborating here for the first time but...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2024
It must be a rare cellist who doesn’t feel deeply about Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, that lyrical cello song wrapped in...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2024
Composer Rebecca Dale (b1985) first came to the wider concert-going and record-buying public’s attention with her large-scale, heartfelt Materna Requiem...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2024
Other than the brief Symphonisches Präludium (Pentatone, 11/17), Bruckner has been absent from Vladimir Jurowski’s discography until now. The symphonies...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2024
What a difference a conductor makes. Where the Bamberg SO’s 2022 recording of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony under its current Chief...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2024
Having just said a very fond farewell to Mark Elder as Music Director after nearly a quarter of a century...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 11/2024
Igor Levit has a well-deserved reputation as one of the most intellectual of pianists – a ‘thinking virtuoso’ (David Fanning,...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 11/2024
Apparently 2025’s Maurice Ravel 150th-anniversary festivities are starting well in advance, with François-Xavier Poizat at the front of the line....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024
For further evidence of the porous borders that lie between classical, contemporary, folk, pop and non-Western musics, look no further...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2024
Steven Mackey’s affecting play for actor, string quartet and percussion, based on his mother’s unpublished and colourful memoir, was originally...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2024
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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