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DAVIES Nature (Huw Watkins)

Holst, Tippett, Birtwistle – British composers in the modern era have achieved great things with the kind of dialogues between...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2021

BRAUNFELS Orchestral Works (Bühl)

There’s a sad paradox in that while the world of literature happily accepts the idea that even the best writers...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2021

BRAHMS Symphony No 3. Serenade No 2 (Fischer)

The Third Symphony’s germinal F-A-F motif is grandly stated at the outset, yet also sprung with a momentum to sweep...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2021

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Concertos (Zimerman)

Krystian Zimerman first recorded the Beethoven concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1989, leading the two early concertos from the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2021

BANTOCK; WILSON: British Music For Strings II (Bostock)

Here’s a second, tasty helping of British string music courtesy of CPO and the South West German Chamber Orchestra under...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2021

MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Petrenko)

I really thought I knew this work – every facet of it. But Kirill Petrenko has a way of hearing...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2021

Lavena: in your hands

An enigmatic soundscape shivers into being in Gemma Peacocke’s Amygdala for solo cello and fixed electronics. The cellist wends her...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 07/2021

ORDWAY Nineteen Movements for Unaccompanied Cello (Arlen Hlusko)

Canadian cellist Arlen Hlusko commissioned Nineteen Movements for Unaccompanied Cello from American composer Scott Ordway in 2017 and the two...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2021

DANIELPOUR An American Mosaic (Simone Dinnerstein)

Richard Danielpour’s An American Mosaic is a cycle of 15 piano miniatures. Eleven are respectively dedicated to specific segments of...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2021

BRYARS A Native Hill

The first thing one notices about this new release from The Crossing is the sheer beauty of tone of the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2021

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