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ICHMOURATOV Symphony 'On the Ruins of an Ancient Fort'

Airat Ichmouratov (b1973) is a Tatarstan-born, Canadian-resident composer. He has lived in Montreal since the 1990s but his musical roots...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020

HAYDN Cello Concertos (Natalie Clein)

Period performance isn’t necessarily something naturally associated with the British cellist Natalie Clein but this live recording of Haydn’s two...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2020

Cello Libris: Works by Geoffrey Gordon

This is apparently the first release to be dedicated to Geoffrey Gordon (b1968), though the composer has built up a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020

ELGAR Cello Concerto CLYNE Dance (Inbal Segev)

I’m struggling to remember the last time a piece of contemporary music made me cry. Ten weeks of solitary lockdown...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020

DUBRA Symphony No 2. Mystery of His Birth

In the extended interview with Dāvis Eņģelis contained in the accompanying booklet to this disc, Rihards Dubra discusses many aspects...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2020

DEBUSSY Images. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Elder)

‘Well written, but with that skill born of habit that one has so much difficulty conquering and which is so...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2020

BRUCH Symphonies Nos 1-3 (Trevino)

Poor old Max Bruch: a composer born to spin long lyrical melodies in a culture that demanded that its symphonists...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphonies (Trevino)

Recorded live, it says on the back of the box, and you can tell: not by the concluding applause, which...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2020

ADÈS In Seven Days (Kirill Gerstein)

In Seven Days is the serious piano-and-orchestra work to Adès’s more display-orientated Piano Concerto (DG, 5/20), in which sense it...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2020

DALLAPICCOLA Il Prigioniero (Noseda)

Gianandrea Noseda’s powerhouse recording of Il prigioniero marks his return to Dallapiccola’s music after a gap of 10 years. An...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2020

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