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COLL Violin Concerto (Patricia Kopatchinskaja)

Earlier this year, Francisco Coll appeared as composer/conductor on an Alpha album featuring Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta and the chamber...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1. Waltzes Op 39 (Emmanuel Despax)

Emmanuel Despax offers a heartfelt tribute to his recording team and fellow musicians in this new recording of Brahms’s First...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2021

BEETHOVEN; SCHNITTKE Violin Concertos (Vadim Gluzman)

First let me pose a question regarding the function of oddball concerto cadenzas, when and where to use them. Outstretching,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2021

BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Medea. A Hand of Bridge (Rose)

A monodrama, a ballet and a mini-opera. Three faces of Samuel Barber ‘in camera’. One might expect a unique offering...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2021

Sueye Park: Journey Through a Century

This is sensational! In welcoming Korean violinist Sueye Park’s BIS album of the complete Paganini Caprices back in January 2018,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2021

Kinga Augustyn: Turning in Time

Heritage and training play significant roles in Kinga Augustyn’s remarkable recording of unaccompanied violin works by 20th- and 21st-century composers....

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2021

Reimagine: Beethoven & Ravel (Inna Faliks)

This album is, quite simply put, a real surprise. Not just for the fine playing of Inna Faliks or her...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2021

Oksana Volkova: Poison d'Amour

Mezzo-soprano Oksana Volkova’s recital of a dozen famous dramatic arias and one bloody obscurity gives full range to the Belarusian’s...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2021

LANSKY Angles

A few years into the new century, Paul Lansky declared himself done with the brave new world of computer music...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 08/2021

CERRONE The Arching Path

A sense of memory and resonance infuses this survey of Cristopher Cerrone’s recent sound work, much of it pulsing, static...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2021

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