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HEAP Dillinger

John Dillinger, the American gangster once proclaimed ‘Public Enemy No 1’, is as infamous as Bonnie and Clyde. His brief,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2023

CERRONE In a Grove

'Remembrance’s flawed roughness’ is how Christopher Cerrone describes the narrative ambiguity threaded through this hour-long chamber opera. Based on Ryūnosuke...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2023

Hallelujah Junction

John Adams’s Hallelujah Junction (1996) has had at least half a dozen recordings since the first, by Nicolas Hodges and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2023

POST Concertino á cinque. Piano Quintet

Each of David Post’s superbly written new three-movement quintets adds music of a richly imaginative nature to the repertoire. His...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2023

NOVA Titration

Shara Nova (b1974, known until 2016 under her married name of Worden) is a soprano and composer with her own...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2023

Icons - The American Minimalists

Since its formation as a saxophone quartet in 1988 by multi-instrumentalist Eric Sleichim, Bl!ndman’s dynamic performances and recordings have sought...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2023

ROSSINI Il Turco in Italia (Scappucci)

This small gem of an opera, first seen in Milan in August 1814, was a collaboration between the 22-year-old Rossini...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2023

REFICE Cecilia (Grazioli)

For a composer with only footnote status outside his native Italy, Licinio Refice (1883-1954) has friends in lofty places. The...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2023

RAVEL L'Heure espagnole. Bolero (Roth)

It was Igor Stravinsky, ever reliable for a barbed quote, who once described Ravel as ‘the most perfect of Swiss...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2023

PUCCINI Turandot (Pons)

Are we slaves to technology? Blinkered by an alternative reality? Even people glued to their tablets and smartphones may find...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2023

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