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GIBSON Sky-Born

Mara Gibson writes music filled with all manner of images and associations. The repertoire on this recording was mostly inspired...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2018

Reed Tetzloff: Sounds of Transcendence

Charles Tomlinson Griffes and the painter Mary Cassatt are the two most noteworthy Impressionists America produced. Yet Griffes’s now century-old...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2018

CRUMB Celestial Mechanics. The Yellow Moon of Andalusia

It has been George Crumb’s good fortune to possess both potent genes and a fertile imagination; his myriad beneficiaries include...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Fischer)

Adam Fischer launched his Dusseldorf Mahler cycle with an accomplished and individual account of the nighthawkish Seventh Symphony. I commented...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2017

ELGAR Falstaff. Orchestral Songs

This is Andrew Davis’s third recording of Elgar’s Falstaff. It is, not to beat about the bush, a superbly perceptive...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2018

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Jordan)

Though the Vienna Philharmonic has recorded many Beethoven cycles, the city’s distinguished second orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, has found less...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (Currentzis)

You may be inclined to adjust your set from the very opening, and you should: the disc demands a high...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2018

Nathalie Stutzmann: Quella Fiamma - Arie Antiche

Nathalie Stutzmann identifies a ‘Madeleine’ moment for her in this recording, recalling that Caldara’s ‘Sebben crudele’ was ‘the first aria...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017

Matthias Goerne: The Wagner Project

When does an album become a project? Perhaps when it is spread over two CDs, as Matthias Goerne and Daniel...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2018

WAGNER Die Walküre (Thielemann)

A bizarre concept: a 50th-anniversary celebration of Karajan’s Salzburg Easter Festival by his major disciple Christian Thielemann which comprises a...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2018

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