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BRAHMS Piano Concertos (Simon Trpčeski)

First, cards-on-table time. For me Brahms’s B flat Concerto (No 2) is by far the genre’s greatest of the Romantic...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2023

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5; 6 & 8 (Noseda)

I found the first volume of Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC’s Beethoven symphony cycle (11/22)...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2023

BEDFORD in the Voices of the Living

Although he has had ‘portrait’ releases on Col Legno (12/12) and last year on the Bastille Musique label, this is...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2023

JS BACH Goldberg Variations Reimagined (Rachel Podger)

Disillusioned in his Leipzig day job, two recent job applications rejected, grieving over the premature death of his son Gottfried...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2023

BACEWICZ Orchestral Works, Vol 1 (Oramo)

After a flurry of releases underlining the major talent that was Grażyna Bacewicz, perhaps this no-less-admirable contribution from Sakari Oramo...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2023

Exquisitely Absurd: Finnish guitar concertos

Contemporary Finnish guitar concertos may not make the top 10 of anyone’s playlist in a hurry. But if these three...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2023

DEBUSSY Etudes (Steven Osborne)

I heard Steven Osborne performing Debussy’s Études live at a Wigmore Hall lunchtime concert last year, so my expectations for...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2023

Unbounded: Music by American Women

Violinist Dawn Wohn paid tribute to nine female composers on her debut album, ‘Perspectives’, in 2019. This second is another...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2023

TOWER Concertos

Joan Tower is such a congenial, straightforward presence, one easily forgets that her complex compositional personality predates the full-fledged American...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2023

DUSMAN Flashpoint

Composers draw inspiration from myriad sources in their efforts to create distinctive narratives. The eclectic works on this album of...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2023

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