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ARTYOMOV Album XI

Vyacheslav Artyomov turned 80 this year. His reputation may rest significantly on large-scale orchestral works, such as the Requiem and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

Camille Thomas: Voice of Hope

Fazıl Say describes his 2017 Cello Concerto as an artistic response to the terror attacks in Paris and Istanbul, and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

Music of the Spheres

Marketing in overdrive and a concept that has misfired, but don’t let that stop you listening to these fresh and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

Sarah Willis: Mozart y Mambo

Sarah Willis is hardly the first to put a Cuban spin on classical works. But where, say, the Klazz Brothers’...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

Lisa Batiashvili: City Lights

The idea for this recording came out of a casual conversation between fellow Georgians Lisa Batiashvili and Nikoloz Rachveli about...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

L’Heure Bleue; Hildegard, Hersant, Hartmann, Shostakovich

If I’ve unpacked it right, there are two converging strands to this project: the atmosphere of ‘that fleeting moment between...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

VIEUXTEMPS Works for Violin & Orchestra (Reto Kuppel)

Given that there’s generally a reason why flashy early 19th-century miniatures penned by their era’s virtuoso soloists haven’t made it...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2020

VASKS Distant Light. Piano Quartet. Summer Dances (Lintu)

Distant Light is surely the most-recorded violin concerto by a living composer, with almost enough versions listed on the streaming...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4. LESHNOFF Double Concerto (Honeck)

In a brief but perspicacious essay on the Tchaikovsky symphonies, Hans Keller argues that the composer’s ‘individual contribution to the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

STRAUSS Rosenkavalier Suite. Tod und Verklärung. Macbeth (Shui)

Following his well-regarded series of Debussy recordings for BIS, Lan Shui’s latest release finds the Hangzhou-born conductor equally at home...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020

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