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SKALKOTTAS Two Concertos

Arguably, both recordings here are firsts, as although Skalkottas’s Violin Concerto (1937 38) has appeared on CD before, this is...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023

SAWYERS Concertos (Woods)

The Double Concerto for violin and cello is the second work that Philip Sawyers has composed for the prodigiously gifted...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023

NERI Sonate da sonarsi con varij stromenti

Massimiliano Neri cuts an interesting figure among the ranks of 16th-century Venetian composers. He was born around 1620 to a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2023

MOZART Ecstasy & Abyss

‘You gotta get a gimmick’, Louise is advised in Gypsy. In opera-directing circles, it’s sometimes disparagingly called a Konzept. The...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2023

LIM Annunciation Triptych

If Liza Lim isn’t on your musical radar, I suggest you remedy that. I can’t think of many other composers...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 07/2023

Contemporary American Composers: Glass; Montgomery; Raimi

Riccardo Muti’s tenure with the CSO came to an end in June this year with three performances of Beethoven’s Missa...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2023

KETÈLBEY Orchestral Works (Yates)

Few English composers have been the subject of such consistent condescension as Birmingham-born Albert W Ketèlbey. You won’t catch a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2023

HOWARD Torus

Torus (2016), sphere (2017) and Antisphere (2019) are three examples of what Emily Howard calls ‘orchestral geometries’, titles that embody...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2023

FARRENC Symphonies 1-3 (Equilbey)

If you haven’t heard Louise Farrenc’s music, you might doubt the fervent claims made about it. Can her recently revived...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 07/2023

BRITTEN; BRUCH Violin Concertos (Kerson Leong)

Kerson Leong’s splendid account of the Bruch comes hot on the heels of Randall Goosby’s no less committed reading with...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2023

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