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FARRINGTON 'Classical Changes'

In the Coronation year of 1953, Trinidad-born pianist Winifred Atwell recorded Let’s Have a Party, a right royal knees-up of...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2023

DILLON Emblemata: Carnival. Tanz/haus

The ultra-cerebral stereotype of the New Complexity often feels like a bit of a chimera. Blame all those images of...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2023

BRAHMS Piano Trios, Opp 36 & 87 (Greenwich Trio)

While there’s a train of thought these days that full-fat Brahms is bad for you, that tradition is alive and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023

BEETHOVEN The Late Quartets (Calidore String Quartet)

The Calidore Quartet prime their tonal canvas in warm shades: nothing so bland as magnolia, but more opulent than the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2023

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. Firebird (Mäkelä)

In taking these momentous scores back to their Parisian roots Klaus Mäkelä, as expected, engages his keen ears and sense...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023

STRAUSS 'Santtu conducts Strauss'

‘We started big’, says Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s welcome note in the booklet about his first season at the helm of the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 8-10 (Petrenko)

Recorded during lockdown, this trio of Shostakovich symphonies chimes quite dramatically with the mood of that time and speaks volumes...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Liss. Wilson)

John Wilson’s new Rachmaninov album with the Sinfonia of London opens with a monstrous crash in the first few seconds,...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2023

PUTS The City. Marimba Concerto. Moonlight (Alsop)

Kevin Puts wrote his Marimba Concerto (1997, rev 2021) while a graduate student at the Eastman School of Music. It...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 (Welser-Möst)

I hope readers who only listen to CDs will not miss out on this fine, but digital-only, recording. Franz Welser-Möst...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2023

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