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DEBUSSY Jeux STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra (Roth)

François-Xavier Roth has released recordings of both of these works before – the Strauss recorded a decade ago with the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2023

BRUCH; PRICE Violin Concertos (Randall Goosby)

You can absolutely hear why Randall Goosby has been turning heads with his open-hearted, generous ‘school of Perlman’ delivery. There’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2023

BRIAN Symphonies Nos 8, 9, 22 & 24 (Fredman)

With this marvellous archival release – specifically that of the Ninth (1951) – of BBC broadcasts conducted by Myer Fredman,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023

BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra (Canellakis)

The curtain-raiser somewhat eclipses the main event in this instance. Why we don’t hear more of Bartók’s Four Orchestral Pieces...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2023

Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem

Lionel Meunier and Ricercar producer Jérôme Lejeune were working together on Vox Luminis’s critically acclaimed recording of Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2023

Sarah Cahill: The Future is Female Vol 3

The third and final volume of Sarah Cahill’s ‘The Future is Female’ offers a chronologically wide-ranging selection of music composed...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 06/2023

WIEMANN I Give You My Home

Although advertised as a chamber opera – even a ‘site-specific’ chamber opera (of which more later) – I Give You...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023

MAZZOLI Dark with Excessive Bright

Missy Mazzoli writes so brilliantly for the violin in Dark with Excessive Bright that it is hard to believe the...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2023

BURWASSER Flights of Imagination

This attractive, well-played album gathers together in one place five disparate works by Daniel Burwasser (b1960) previously issued separately in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023

Michael Spyres: Contra-Tenor

After ‘BariTenor’, which caused a considerable stir on its release two years ago (A/21), we have ‘Contra-Tenor’, ostensibly its prequel,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2023

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