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LIEBERSON Songs of Love and Sorrow

In the cosmology of Tibetan Buddhism, the six realms – three good and three evil – delineate a life cycle...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2021

ELMAS Piano Concertos (Howard Shelley)

Hyperion keeps pulling obscure Romantic concertos out of the woodwork, this time with two by Armenian composer Stéphan Elmas (1862-1937)....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Thielemann)

This is the first release in a cycle of the Bruckner symphonies by Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic, an...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1 (Sunwook Kim)

Sunwook Kim’s second recording of Brahms’s First Piano Concerto in a little over three years, with the Staatskapelle Dresden and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2021

BENNETT Psychedelia (Brophy)

When I first heard Ed Bennett’s music several years ago, I was intrigued to hear a composer so adept at...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 01/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4. Symphony No 7 (Lahav Shani)

Multitalented pianist, conductor and former Israel Philharmonic double-bass player Lahav Shani was just 29 when it was announced in the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 1 (Rudolf Buchbinder)

Time was when it was all but impossible to get musicians to concede that there might be other orchestras worthy...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2021

MARTINŮ Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 BARTÓK Sonata for Solo Violin (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

Despite the eminence of the coupling of the Bartók Solo Sonata, the two Martinů concertos are the main event on...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2021

Quatra Duo: Painted Music

This is a deceptively straightforward disc, intended primarily as the debut recording of this husband-and-wife duo. It even opens with...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020

STROZZI Opus 8, 1664 Part 1

This splendid and authoritative recital by Elissa Edwards and Richard Kolb of arias and cantatas from Barbara Strozzi’s last published...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2020

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