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DEAN In spe contra spem - Viola & Cello Concertos and Orchestral Works

Australian composer, former Berlin Philharmonic viola player and conductor Brett Dean’s music is typically dramatic, expressive and texturally, timbrally and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2025

CPE BACH; WF BACH; BENDA 'The Age of Extremes'

You might not guess just from its title that this release treads the mid-18th-century gully between the Baroque and Classical...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2025

Envols

Mélanie Harel’s incongruous quest to equip the English horn with wings – ‘Envols’ translates as ‘flights’ – results in a...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2025

SOPER The Romance of the Rose

For composer Kate Soper, almost any musical resource – acoustic, electronic, audio, visual – is a possibility in a no-boundary...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2025

HIGDON; JOLLEY; TOWER Shifting Direction

The three contrasting works on ‘Shifting Directions’, the new recording by the Texas Tech University Contemporary Music Ensemble, run a...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2025

GLASS Águas da Amazônia

There’s nothing else quite like Águas da Amazônia in Philip Glass’s catalogue of works. Originally composed in 1993 as incidental...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2025

MOZART Mitridate, re di Ponto (Minkowski)

Mozart was determined to make a splash with his first full-length opera, unfurled in Milan weeks before his 15th birthday....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2025

Seelentrost - the Sound of Inner Life in Heinrich Schütz Time (Isabel Schicketanz)

This is one of those delightful occasions where a complex and highly nuanced solo programme both holds together as a...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2025

L’Orgue Spirituel: Organ music by César Franck and Charles Tournemire (Peter Stevens)

Although there is no shortage of compelling recordings of César Franck’s Trois Chorals, it is good to hear this excellent...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2025

Italophilia: Discovering the Italian Style in Handel’s London

The Counterpoints first came to my attention in June 2020 with their debut album, ‘La querelleuse’. I had been reviewing...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2025

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