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SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7. Pelléas Et Mélisande. King Christian II (Collon)

This is a rooted performance of Sibelius’s last symphony from the first non-Finn to lead the orchestra of the Finnish...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2022

RAVEL Piano Concertos. Mélodies (Cédric Tiberghien. Stéphane Degout)

Every now and again accounts of Ravel’s concertos come along that set new standards: the G major from Michelangeli and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2022

Wolfgang Holzmair : The Philips Recitals

As this welcome 70th-birthday retrospective reminds us, Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair’s voice is surely one of the most immediately recognisable...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

The Complete Warner Classics Edition Teldec and EMI Recordings Kurt Masur

Like so many great conductors from the past, recent or distant, over time Kurt Masur evolved his own sound, which...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022

WORTHINGTON Passages Through Time

This is the second album Navona has devoted entirely to the music of Rain Worthington (b1949), though her works –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022

MATIEGKA 6 Sonates progressives pour guitare, Op 31 (David Starobin)

It is typical of David Starobin to wind up his career as a recording artist with music by a composer...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2022

DASHOW Soundings in Pure Duration, Vol 2

The heyday of electroacoustic composition, arguably from the 1950s to the 1970s when it was a vital strand of avant-garde...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022

BROUWER Reactions: Songs and Chamber Music

Margaret Brouwer covers a lot of emotional territory in the music on her new CD, ‘Reactions’, which comprises works composed...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2022

ADLER To Speak To Our Time: Choral Works

Samuel Adler (b1928), who studied with Copland and Hindemith, taught for 63 years at the Juilliard and Eastman schools of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2022

Rivales

This selection of airs and duets from – mostly – French operas reflects the careers of two sopranos who were...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2022

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