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BERLIOZ Requiem (Gardner; Morlot)

Back in days of old, recordings – and, for that matter, live performances – of Berlioz’s huge-scale Mass for the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2018

JS BACH Sonn und Schild - Cantatas

‘God the Lord is Sun and Shield’ – the title of Cantata No 79 – is the epithet given to...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2018

JS BACH Arias and Sinfonias (Benjamin Appl)

There are no concepts, no gimmicks and just a single-word title – ‘Bach’ – for Benjamin Appl’s latest release. This...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018

Unexplored

All four works here are premiere recordings – two only in transcription – and the major item is without doubt...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018

Scenes From Home: Music for clarinet and piano by Colorado composers

Kellan Toohey, a gifted young clarinettist from Colorado, has bestowed a lovely gift upon composers ‘who are either from Colorado,...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2018

Russian Trumpet Sonatas

Although entitled ‘Russian Trumpet Sonatas’, this album featuring eight Soviet-era sonatas is really the story of two intrepid trumpeters. One,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018

6-Wire

In the midst of premiering new works by Mark Hagerty, Bright Sheng and Jennifer Barker and getting ready to make...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2018

S YIP Chamber Works

Born in Hong Kong and now living in the United States, Stephen Yip is a composer whose chamber works abound...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2018

GOTTSCHALK Art for Two

The Californian Arthur Gottschalk (b1952) – no relation, I think, to Louis Moreau Gottschalk – studied with Ross Lee Finney...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018

GARLAND The Landscape Scrolls

It was the early 1980s when I dropped in at Lou Harrison’s place on the California coast. I had met...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2018

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