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SIMPSON Remembered Music

Now in his early sixties, Nicholas Simpson studied composition during the 1980s with John Tavener at Trinity College, London. However,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2019

NØRGÅRD Whirl's World

It’s a mistake to consider Per Nørgård a dogmatic composer and this release proves it in style, placing some of...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2019

DENNEHY Surface Tension. Disposable Dissonance

Donnacha Dennehy’s arrival as a composer in the late 1990s heralded what was dubbed the new Irish classical. Often performed...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 10/2019

DANDRIEU; CORELLI Sonatas

Le Consort’s decision to record these six sonatas by Jean-François Dandrieu, an obscure 18th-century French composer best known for his...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2019

RAVEL; CHAUSSON Piano Trios (Vienna Piano Trio)

The Vienna Piano Trio already have a live recording of Ravel’s masterpiece in their portfolio (also for MDG, from 2011)....

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2019

BRAHMS; BRUCH; SCHUBERT Trios

The canon is dead, we’re told. And yet week in, week out, they keep coming: new recordings of supposed warhorses...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2019

BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Ibragimova, Tiberghien)

Alina Ibragimova’s quiet playing is perhaps the most arresting feature of these performances, especially as she and Cédric Tiberghien are...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2019

Quasi morendo

In this typically provocative compilation, ECM producer Manfred Eicher doesn’t simply present a sequence of three separate, well-contrasted compositions: rather,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2019

The Tchaikovsky Project (Complete)

Now we have the complete portrait, as it were, of Tchaikovsky through the eyes of Semyon Bychkov, many of the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2019

Verbier Festival: 25th Anniversary Concert

The home viewer of this Rheingold-length gala enjoys certain advantages over the blinged-up patrons who packed the plastic hothouse of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019

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