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GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN For Violin and Orchestra

Both of the concertante works on this disc take the listener on journeys through slowly changing musical landscapes. Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020

BRITTEN; HINDEMITH; MARTINU; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Works for Viola and Orchestra

A product of the Royal Academy of Music, pupil of Nobuko Imai and BBC New Generation Artist, London-born Timothy Ridout...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2020

BRAHMS; SCHOENBERG Violin Concertos (Jack Liebeck)

The beauty of this coupling lies with the way in which two such highly distinctive works impact upon each other....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos (Stewart Goodyear)

One of the more recent entries into the Beethoven Piano Concerto sweepstakes is the collaboration of the Canadian pianist Stewart...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2020

BEDROSSIAN Twist. Edges. Epigram

Who’s afraid of a new ism? In the first decade of the 2000s, along with fellow Paris Conservatoire graduate Raphaël...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2020

ARNOLD; IBERT; NIELSEN Flute Concertos (Clara Andrada)

Although Nielsen’s Flute Concerto is well established in the repertoire, the other concertos on this recording are less frequently heard...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2020

Adès Conducts Adès

So is this the last Romantic piano concerto? It might well be; but the work’s precursor In Seven Days –...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2020

GÓRECKI String Quartet No 3 (Tippet Quartet)

Górecki’s series of string quartets, written over a relatively short span of time (the first dates from 1988) are absolutely...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2020

UNG Space Between Heaven and Earth

Chinary Ung (b1942) is a Cambodian-born, California-resident composer whose music has been featured on more than 20 recordings from mostly...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2020

HARBACH Orchestra Works, Vol 5

This splendid recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra of four richly romantic works written by Barbara Harbach in 2017 shows...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2020

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