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AKIHO Oculus

As masters of the art of hitting things, percussionists are deeply connected to the sheer physicality of making music. In...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2023

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 (transcr Liszt) MOZART Piano Concerto No 20 (transcr Alkan) Paul Wee

In September 2015 Jeremy Nicholas lamented that José Raúl López’s performance of Mozart’s D minor Concerto as reflected through the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2022

Claire Bryant: Whole Heart

Each of the seven works on Claire Bryant’s blazing debut album is about relationships and playing the cello in the...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2022

ORDWAY The Outer Edge of Youth

I’d describe the music of Scott Ordway’s quite beautiful 2020 choral opera The Outer Edge of Youth as a blend...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022

Maestrino Mozart: Airs d’opéra d’un jeune génie

Marie-Eve Munger’s new recording is a tour de force of scholarship and artistry. The Canadian soprano has collected arias and...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2022

BRINK Utility Music

For his first stand-alone release, Julian Brink has repurposed and reorchestrated an incomplete score for an unfinished film. Utility Music...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2022

ABEL 'Spectrum'

Mark Abel continues to demonstrate his versatility in the works on the newest Delos release of his music, ‘Spectrum’, a...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2022

Konstantin Krimmel: Zauberoper

Premiered at the suburban Theater auf der Wieden in 1789, Paul Wranitzky’s Oberon fuelled the Viennese appetite for ‘magic operas’...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2022

Bruno de Sá: Roma travestita

This solo debut doesn’t so much throw down the gauntlet as hurl it into the listener’s face. Without so much...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2022

VERDI Gustavo III (Abbado )

‘World Premiere on Video’, proclaims the cover, which is I suppose strictly true, but one shouldn’t get too excited. What...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2022

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