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BENNETT The Glory and the Dream

What an extraordinarily versatile and accomplished figure was Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012). As both performer and composer he possessed richly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2018

J ANDERSON Choral Music

Julian Anderson’s opera Thebans (2013 14), his most elaborate and ambitious musical statement to date, provides a penetrating analysis of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2018

Ray Chen: The Golden Age

I’ll wager that champagne corks were popping in the Decca Classics office when they first heard the finished master of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2018

Vivaldi x2 – Double Concertos

Anyone familiar with La Serenissima’s zestily elegant Four Seasons (10/15) will be aware that these musicians represent one heck of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (Tilson Thomas)

Here’s a middle-of-the-road interpretation of a work that’s anything but. Indeed, the Pathétique is so emotionally charged and structurally daring...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto DVOŘÁK Romance

I’m frankly astonished by how seldom performers adhere to the letter of Tchaikovsky’s score to his Violin Concerto, as if...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2018

STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie (Jurowski)

As a peak of the orchestral repertoire, Strauss’s Alpine Symphony is in danger of becoming overrun: it’s a work that...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2018

SIBELIUS; STRAVINSKY Violin Concertos (Zhi-Jong Wang)

The Chinese violinist Zhi-Jong Wang made her debut at the age of 14 under Yehudi Menuhin and later won First...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 1 & 10 (Pletnev)

You would expect Pletnev – a complicated and elusive character at the best of times – to offer a radical...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2018

QIN Orchestral Works

From Debussy on, Western composers have sought inspiration from non-Western instruments. In the past couple of decades, this tendency has...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2018

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