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BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Järvi)

They say the apple never falls far from the tree, so it’s perhaps not surprising to find Paavo Järvi’s second...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2023

BJARNASON 'From Earth to Ether'

Daníel Bjarnason is best known to the record catalogue as the conductor responsible for the Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s continuing series...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos (Steven Devine)

Bach was an inveterate assembler. Long after he had jettisoned his liturgical cantata cycles for solo keyboard collections in Leipzig...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2023

TUBIN Kratt

Another riveting performance from Paavo Järvi’s army-of generals Estonian Festival Orchestra and another album on which it’s hard to get...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2023

ADDISON; JACOB; RUBBRA British Piano Concertos Vol 2

It is Gordon Jacob’s use of the orchestra in his Piano Concerto No 2 that rouses the admiration more than...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2023

STILLPOINT

Inspired by the Emerging Artist Competition at DePauw University’s 21CMposium in 2016, Awadagin Pratt, Mark Rabideau and Judd Greenstein developed...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2023

From Method to Madness: The American Sound

This survey of American music for cello and piano includes a pair of standard works (the Barber and Foss) and...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 10/2023

Ashley Jackson: Ennanga

Ashley Jackson’s new album may be relatively short but it is long on feeling and artistic connections. She pays tribute...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2023

All Roads

The Shea-Kim husband-and-wife duo offer impressive performances of four works that require an equal musical partnership. The duo have won...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 10/2023

HIGDON Duo Duel. Concerto for Orchestra

Concertos are a popular format among contemporary orchestral composers: they not only tick multiple boxes in the commissioning process but...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 10/2023

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