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RUNESTAD The Hope of Loving

‘To be calm, to be serene!’ writes Henry David Thoreau at the end of his poem ‘Reflections’, the first text...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW2019

RACHMANINOV Piano Trios (Hermitage Piano Trio)

Rachmaninov’s piano trios have been extremely lucky on disc, with dozens of world-class versions (both sonically and interpretatively speaking) from...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2019

LOCKLAIR Symphony No 2

A native of North Carolina, Dan Locklair (b1949) celebrates his 70th birthday this year, and celebratory is the word that...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019

HUTTER Secular Choral Music

Gregory Hutter wrote these 10 songs for chorus during what he described as ‘a challenging creative period’. But while each...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW2019

BRANDMAN Sensations

The Australian composer Margaret Brandman (b1951) graduated from both the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Sydney University. Her CV also...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019

MACHAUT The Single Rose

David Fallows called them a ‘dream team’ (11/13), Fabrice Fitch described their fourth Machaut album in this series as ‘one...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2019

BEETHOVEN; SIBELIUS Violin Concertos (Tetzlaff)

What we have here is by my calculations Christian Tetzlaff’s third recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, the first two under...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2019

Imogen Cooper: Iberia y Francia

Imogen Cooper has been travelling and she’d like us to come along. For an artist whose name is frequently associated...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2019

BARTÓK Piano Quintet VERESS String Trio

If you pan back to 1954 in search of the year’s finest music, Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto and Lutosławski’s Concerto...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2019

KORNGOLD Symphony. Straussania (Wilson)

Rumours have been circling for a while of a hush-hush project from John Wilson; of a new super-orchestra hand-picked from...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2019

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