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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A Sea Symphony (Brabbins)

Martyn Brabbins follows up his outstandingly lucid account of Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony in its first published edition of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2018

HAYDN Cello Concertos SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht (Weilerstein)

Only a cellist who paired Elgar and Elliot Carter on her concerto debut album could have devised this left-field programme...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2018

BARTÓK Violin Concerto No 1 (Vilde Frang)

Absolutely stunning. Had the Heifetz-Piatigorsky team tackled Enescu’s string Octet, I doubt that they would have topped this version by...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2018

CHOPIN Cello Sonata SCHUBERT Arpeggione (Isserlis)

Can it really be 10 years since Steven Isserlis and Dénes Várjon proved a wonderfully innate partnership with their disc...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018

A Walk With Ivor Gurney

Here’s a nourishing, thoughtfully compiled release from Signum, one of the keys to which can be found in some lines...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2018

Stuart Skelton: Shining Knight

‘All my life’s buried here …’ Stuart Skelton writes, quoting Oscar Wilde with self-deprecating irony, at the end of the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018

Refugium

The booklet is confusing. It reveals nothing about Trinity Boys Choir or their conductor, prints a curious essay describing Durham...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW18

Melancholia: Madrigals and motets around 1600

Les Cris de Paris are pretty hard to capture in a brief paragraph. Readers will recognise them as the chorus...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2018

Joyce DiDonato: Into the Fire

As if anyone needed reminding that Joyce DiDonato is nothing if not an intuitive stage animal, all of her recital...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2018

STRAVINSKY Perséphone (Salonen)

‘A humanist Rite of Spring’ was Elliott Carter’s description of Stravinsky’s ‘melodrama with dance’, composed in 1933-34 to a text...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018

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