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Buzz Brass: Inspirations

Buzz Brass’s previous recordings have included a version of The Planets for an expanded ensemble including organ and ‘Preludes and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

A Black Birch in Winter: American and Estonian Choral Music

Voces Musicales are an Estonian chamber choir founded in 1999. Their only other disc currently available in Presto Classical’s database...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

REALE Caldera with Ice Cave

In an absorbing album of music written since the turn of the century, Paul Reale displays his Prospero-like command of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2020

MASLANKA Symphony No 10, 'The River of Time'

When David Maslanka died on August 7, 2017, barely five weeks after his wife and three weeks shy of his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2020

Amy Yang: Resonance

On paper, the idea of Bach’s Fourth Partita and Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze bookending the recorded premiere of Caroline Shaw’s 14-minute Gustave...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2020

Maija Kovalevska: Majesty

The Latvian soprano Maija Kovalevska first came to prominence in 2006 when she won Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition, which led...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2020

Roberto Alagna: Caruso 1873

What’s this? Roberto Alagna singing Colline’s Coat Aria from La bohème? Has he followed other tenors in (mis)appropriating baritone and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2020

WEBER Der Freischütz (Janowski)

With a project as well realised as this, one reflects how Weber and Kind’s great 1821 work may still be...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2020

VERDI La Traviata (Manacorda)

Can it really be 25 years since the BBC ripped up the television schedules at short notice to broadcast the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2020

SMYTH Fête Galante LEHMANN The Happy Prince

I have a pet theory that certain composers do their finest work with their lightest touch – and if you’ve...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2020

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