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KROUSE Armenian Requiem

Ian Krouse’s powerful Armenian Requiem, commissioned by Vatsche Barsoumian’s Lark Music Society, draws on traditional liturgical chant and poetry to...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2019

D'HAENE Music with Silent Aitakes

Gagaku, the music of the Imperial Japanese Court, has exerted a fascination on Western composers for many decades, not least...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019

COPLAND; RAVEL; STRAVINSKY Symphonic Dances

You have to hand it to New York’s Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and their intrepid leader David Bernard for sheer...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2019

La Morte Della Ragione (Il Giardino Armonio, Giovanni Antonini)

I welcome Il Giardino Armonico’s commitment to filling our modern ears with such strange sounds with, well, open ears. As...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2019

Jet Set! Classical Glitterati

The titular ‘glitterati’ are a disparate group of musicians linked only by the fact that they travelled and worked away...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2019

The Golden Violin: Music of the 20s

The title refers to a ‘golden age of violin playing’, nebulously defined in the booklet by ‘the artistry of the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2019

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 7 & 9

The Seventh and Ninth Symphonies of Vaughan Williams are perhaps the least likely to find their way into concert programmes;...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (Petrenko)

Pierre Boulez – no conductor of Tchaikovsky – used to give performances that rendered a pocket score redundant. There was...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto. Fantasies (Guy Braunstein)

‘Why compose violin and orchestra rhapsodies after Tchaikovsky’s opera and ballet music?’ asks Guy Braunstein in his booklet note to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2019

TAVENER The Protecting Veil

This disc begins with a beautiful reading by Olwyn Fouéré of Yeats’s heartbreaking ‘The Cloths of Heaven’, a poem Tavener...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2019

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