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Review of Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru

Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru

If ‘Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru’ initially sounds like the title of a gangsta rap album, nothing could be further...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2024

Review of LIGETI Concertos and Chamber Music (Bleuse)

LIGETI Concertos and Chamber Music (Bleuse)

In the year of his centenary and with its own half-century fast approaching, it made sense for Ensemble Intercontemporain to...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024

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Review of LACHENMANN My Melodies

LACHENMANN My Melodies

Lachenmann’s title is a playful tease in the spirit of the toy frogs who pop up in his 1983 ensemble...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024

Review of HOWARD Orchestral Works (Seal)

HOWARD Orchestral Works (Seal)

There has not previously been a release devoted to Dani Howard (b1993). Fluent across the broad range of genres (witness...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024

Review of HAYDN 'Haydn 2032, Vol 15: La Reine' (Antonini)

HAYDN 'Haydn 2032, Vol 15: La Reine' (Antonini)

Queens and empresses are the linking factor in this latest addition to Giovanni Antonini’s Haydn cycle. Some connections, though, are...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2024

Review of GORDON 'The Impermanence of Things'

GORDON 'The Impermanence of Things'

Now in his early 60s, British composer Michael Zev Gordon shares with his near-contemporaries George Benjamin and Julian Anderson an...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024

Review of ELFMAN Percussion Concerto. Wunderkammer (Colin Currie)

ELFMAN Percussion Concerto. Wunderkammer (Colin Currie)

Danny Elfman’s concerto for orchestra Wunderkammer was written for the National Youth Orchestra and clearly designed to stretch and stimulate...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2024

Review of DVOŘÁK; SCHUMANN; SCHREKER 'Eastbound'

DVOŘÁK; SCHUMANN; SCHREKER 'Eastbound'

Older readers may associate the Lucerne Festival Strings with Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Rudolf Baumgartner but under Australian-born Daniel Dodds the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2024

Review of BRUCKNER Symphony Nos 1 & 7 (Poschner)

BRUCKNER Symphony Nos 1 & 7 (Poschner)

The latest releases in Capriccio’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies feature a new edition of the Seventh Symphony by Paul...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2024

Review of BRONSART; HENSELT Piano Concertos (Paul Wee)

BRONSART; HENSELT Piano Concertos (Paul Wee)

The Henselt Concerto has been recorded only three times previously, remarkable when you consider it was an almost de rigueur...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2024

 

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