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SHOSTAKOVICH Jazz & Variety Suites (Litton)

Shostakovich’s well-developed sense of irony is so intrinsically wrapped up with his love of popular music – especially that which...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2022

SCHUMANN Complete Symphonies (Heras-Casado)

Pablo Heras-Casado becomes the latest of his generation of conductors to record a Schumann cycle. He has form in this...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2022

PIAZZOLLA; VIVALDI 'The Mandolin Seasons' (Jacob Reuven)

It’s always a boon when it’s clear from the off that there’s a real relationship at the heart of a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2022

MOZART; BIRCHALL Clarinet Concertos (Michael Collins)

Michael Collins favours unusual couplings for his recordings of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. His first recording (DG) was paired with Mikhail...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2022

MENDELSSOHN; SINDING Violin Concertos (Lea Birringer)

Here’s something new, and I’m talking less about this being German violinist Lea Birringer’s debut concerto disc than the fact...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2022

Voyages - Orchestral Music By James Lee III

James Lee III (b1975) is a master colourist. His orchestration is dazzlingly vivid and teems with detail – so much...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2022

GUARNIERI Choros Vol 2: Flor de Tremembé

In the sense meant by the old phrase ‘a painter’s painter’, Camargo Guarnieri is ‘a composer’s composer’. His music grabs...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2022

GHEDINI L'Olmeneta MALIPIERO Cello Concerto

There are passages in Gian Francesco Malipiero’s 1937 Cello Concerto that sound as if they might have come from a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2022

DEBUSSY La Damoiselle élue. Le martyre de Saint Sébastien

The Debussian sensibility is writ large here. One can trace a line of succession from the ‘Sirènes’ of Nocturnes via...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2022

New York Youth: Price, Coleman, Montgomery

Florence Price is fast becoming the flag-bearer for a whole new generation of female African American composers. And she is...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2022

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