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BRITTEN Billy Budd (Bolton)

Companies releasing DVDs of Britten’s operas must be glad they do not have to look over their shoulders at the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2018

BERG Wozzeck (Weigle)

Unseen except in a copiously illustrated booklet, Christof Loy’s staging nevertheless exerts a powerful influence over this audio-only production. Any...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018

Through the Eyes of Yuja: A road movie

Having watched this relatively brief (47 minutes) portrait, one is left in no doubt about how very lonely is the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2018

Songs for Strings

Donald Fraser has made a very successful career from arrangements since his orchestral rescoring of Marin Marais’s The Bells of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2018

Baiba Skride: American Concertos

Baiba Skride has been recording large swathes of the concerto repertory in relatively short order, travelling both along and off...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018

WATKINS Flute Concerto. Violin Concerto. Symphony

If music is, indeed, ‘the food of love’, then Huw Watkins’s Flute Concerto (2013) does have ‘excess of it’! I...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018

SCRIABIN Symphony No 1 (Petrenko)

The last instalment of Vasily Petrenko’s Scriabin series contains works written only a decade apart, separated by a stylistic chasm....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2018

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4 (Trifonov)

Every pianist who records Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto these days has to have their own take, it seems, on the famous...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2018

POULENC Piano Concerto. Organ Concerto

It could take traditional labels years to attract artists of this calibre to record works of this scale. Instead we...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018

Hommage à Penderecki

Anne-Sophie Mutter has advocated contemporary music throughout her four-decade career and Krzysztof Penderecki above all, as this two-disc 85th birthday...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018

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