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BRAHMS Piano Concertos (Igor Levit)

Igor Levit has a well-deserved reputation as one of the most intellectual of pianists – a ‘thinking virtuoso’ (David Fanning,...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 11/2024

RAVEL Complete Works with Piano (François-Xavier Poizat)

Apparently 2025’s Maurice Ravel 150th-anniversary festivities are starting well in advance, with François-Xavier Poizat at the front of the line....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024

Tallā Rouge: Shapes in Collective Space

For further evidence of the porous borders that lie between classical, contemporary, folk, pop and non-Western musics, look no further...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2024

MACKEY Memoir

Steven Mackey’s affecting play for actor, string quartet and percussion, based on his mother’s unpublished and colourful memoir, was originally...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2024

CAMERON-WOLFE Passionate Geometries

Richard Cameron-Wolfe is probably best known for his micro-operas – powerful pocket-size, single-movement pieces for solo, duet or small ensemble...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2024

BATES; BRESNICK Ways You Went

The two affecting works on The Crossing’s new album find the composers making observations from different perspectives. Self-Portraits 1964, Unfinished...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2024

Roberto Alagna: 60

What do you give a tenor celebrating his 60th birthday? If you’re Roberto Alagna, you naturally indulge yourself in a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2024

WOOLF Jacqueline (Marnie Breckenridge)

Jacqueline du Pré – and her many posthumous admirers – need to be rescued from her legend. The 1998 film...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2024

Der Stein der Weisen, oder Die Zauberinsel

Emanuel Schikaneder’s company at Vienna’s suburban Theater auf der Wieden staged several new fairy-tale Singspiels. Exactly one year before The...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2024

MARTINŮ The Greek Passion (Pascal)

Reviewing the last recording of Martinů’s The Greek Passion to feature in the pages of Gramophone – live from Graz...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2024

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