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M BATES Mothership. Alternative Energy. The B-Sides. Liquid Interface

A jet engine revs at the start of Mothership (2010) by Mason Bates, something like a spacecraft taking off. (At...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 04/2016

BARTÓK; PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos

In recent years Gil Shaham has taken up the cudgels for the music of a decade which, he would argue,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016

JS BACH Violin Concertos

This new disc of Bach concertos has attributes we have come to expect from the Dunedin Consort and Linn, namely...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2016

ATTERBERG Symphony No 3. 3 Nocturnes. Vittorioso

Atterberg’s Third Symphony was assembled in stages between 1914 and 1916 from ideas for three seascapes/tone-poems that – after the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2016

ANDERSON In lieblicher Bläue. Alleluia. The Stations of the Sun

This is the fourth disc to be devoted exclusively to the music of Julian Anderson and the second such venture...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2016

SCARLATTI 18 Sonatas

Back in the May 2005 issue of Gramophone, Bryce Morrison extolled the virtues of a Scarlatti disc by a young...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016

Paris, mon amour

Aficionados of French (or France-based) opera will warm to ‘Paris, mon amour’ by the Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva. Schooled in...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/15

Rosa Feola: Musica e Poesia

In their search for the vocal stars of the future, Rosenblatt Recitals have enjoyed an impressive hit-rate. Now that the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2016

Upheld by Stillness: Renaissance Gems and their Reflections

This is a curious project. Suzi Digby and her new professional choir ORA champion today’s British choral composers as the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016

CHARPENTIER Stances du Cid

This collection revolves around a range of seldom-performed songs by Charpentier. The title alludes to three stanzas on texts taken...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016

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