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KORNGOLD Complete Incidental Music - Much Ado About Nothing. der Vampir

Four decades into the Korngold revival, it’s a pleasant surprise to be confronted with something completely unfamiliar. In this case,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2022

GUNNING Flute Concertino. Clarinet Concerto. Guitar Concerto

The reissue of Christopher Gunning’s Discovery releases on the Signum label continues with a trio of concertos to which Edward...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022

GERSHWIN; RACHMANINOV Rhapsody (Martin James Bartlett)

I did not think Martin James Bartlett’s debut album for Warner Classics (6/19) showed him in the best possible light....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022

'Debussy Orchestrated'

For their latest album, Pascal Rophé and his Loire orchestra turn to music by Debussy originally written for piano but...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 (Thielemann)

It would be idle to pretend that this latest addition to Sony’s Bruckner cycle with Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2022

BRUCKNER Symphony No 0 'die Nullte' (Poschner)

The earliest of Bruckner’s three symphonies in D minor, No 0 or Die Nullte was written shortly after the composer’s...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2022

ABRAHAMSEN Schnee (Storgårds)

There isn’t much in Hans Abrahamsen’s recent output that doesn’t owe its existence, in some form or other, to his...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022

JS BACH St Matthew Passion (Pichon)

Having recently tasted Pygmalion’s ravishing performances of two Bach cantatas for solo soprano with Sabine Devieilhe (Erato, 12/21), I sensed...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2022

Vintage Americana

I suspect that the six works featured here would be unlikely items in most selections of vintage Americana. All credit...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022

Early Moderns: The (Very) First Viennese School

In their extensive booklet note as well as in the varied programme they’ve assembled, violinists Robert Mealy and Julie Andrijeski...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022

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