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KABELÁČ Mystery of Time

The music of Miloslav Kabeláč (1908-79, not 1891-1953 as the booklet’s biography has it) really should be far better known...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2022

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 6-8 (Solomon)

Haydn’s three ‘Times of Day’ Symphonies must be among the most-recorded of all the works of his very early period....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022

GIPPS Orchestral Works (Gamba)

Although as a pianist she was virtuoso enough to play concertos by Brahms and Glazunov, the oboe was Ruth Gipps’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2022

Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries (Rachel Barton Pine)

This is the 25th-anniversary reissue of Rachel Barton Pine’s groundbreaking album ‘Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and...

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

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1& 2 DVORÁK Symphonies Nos6 & 7 (Hrůša)

I was listening to this pair of two-disc sets – completing Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony’s series juxtaposing the...

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

JS BACH Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069 (Dunedin Consort)

Remembering their recordings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (A/14) and violin concertos (4/16), what else are we to expect from John...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2022

ADÈS Märchentänze (Collon)

On first glance, you crave some meat here. Where’s the main course? If Nicholas Collon’s Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra can...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2022

Marina Viotti: A Tribute to Pauline Viardot

Pauline Viardot led a remarkable life. Born in France to Spanish tenor Manuel García, who created the role of Count...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022

Randall Scotting: The Crown - Heroic Arias for Senesino

Senesino (nickname for Francesco Bernardi) set the template for the star castrato with attitude. In contrast to the far more...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2022

Jodie Devos: Bijoux perdus

Like Marina Viotti’s recording devoted to Pauline Viardot (see overleaf), this new album featuring Jodie Devos is a tribute to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022

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