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Speculation on JS Bach – Reconstructed Chamber Music & Chorals’

The chorale melody was the cantus firmus of Bach’s art, its generative, motivating force, its divine metaphor. It serves a...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2018

ABRAHAMSEN String Quartets Nos 1 - 4

This backwards-looking survey of Hans Abrahamsen’s four string quartets, starting with the most recent from 2012 and finishing with the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018

In Rehearsal

At the time of going to press all six conductors featured on this set are still with us, but reminders...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2018

Music of the Americas

‘The common denominator in all of these works is the rhythm which is highly articulated, flexible and energised’, writes Andrés...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2018

Daniel Hope: Journey to Mozart

You could never accuse Daniel Hope of going for the obvious. Rather than record yet another album of Mozart concertos,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018

Gabrieli for Brass

As Royal Academy of Music Principal Jonathan Freeman-Attwood reminds us in the booklet for this recording, performances of Gabrieli’s ensemble...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2018

Donaueschinger Musiktage 2016

Fast approaching its centenary, the Donaueschinger Musiktage continues as a beacon for European music of what might still be called...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2018

TÜÜR Symphony No 8. Illuminatio

The booklet note compares Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Symphony No 8 with the process of ‘motifs growing to symphonic proportions’ at work...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 (Masur)

The opening of this tremendous piece reveals so much about a performance. Before the invasion, before the siege of Leningrad,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2018

RIES Piano Concertos Nos 8 & 9

Volume 75 of this remarkable series is graced by the presence of the pianist who inaugurated it back in 1991....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2018

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