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TROTTA For a Breath of Ecstasy

The American composer Michael John Trotta has concentrated on choral music for most of his career. The newest disc devoted...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2017

MAKAN Letting Time Circle Through Us

Keeril Makan’s Letting Time Circle Through Us (2013) is a sextet in one large, euphonious, unbroken span. Written for the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017

DVOŘÁK String Quartet No 12 MARSALIS String Quartet No 1

What an interesting pairing of works the Euclid Quartet have come up with for their new disc. ‘American Quartets’ teams Dvořák’s String Quartet...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2017

CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3. Mazurkas Op 59

Craig Sheppard, the Philadelphia-born pianist who turns 70 this year, has built a remarkable career by almost any standard. He studied with...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2017

CHOPIN Complete Nocturnes (Rodrigues)

On the plus side, pianist Eliane Rodrigues possesses a colourful and focused sonority, abetted by the superb acoustic ambience of the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017

CHIHARA Take the A Train

Paul Chihara (b1938) is well known as a film composer – starting with Death Race 2000 for Roger Corman in 1975 –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017

SIBELIUS Tapiola. En Saga, Eight Songs

‘I haven’t seen the ancient forests of Northern Finland but I still think I do a pretty convincing Tapiola’, Hannu Lintu told me for a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017

PADEREWSKI Piano Concerto STOJOWSKI Symphonic Rhapsody

Any new Jonathan Plowright recording is a cause for celebration, even more so when he brings to the catalogue a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2017

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Romances SCHUBERT Rondo

This interpretation of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto could be considered ‘old school’ by today’s standards. Indeed, if you’ve heard Manze’s sinewy account...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017

RAMEAU Pygmalion. Les fêtes de Polymnie – Suite

According to the Mercure de France, Rameau composed Pygmalion (1748) in less than eight days, responding rapidly to an urgent commission...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2017

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