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ĶENIÑŠ Symphonies Nos 5 & 8. Aria (Poga)
After his Fourth and Sixth Symphonies from Ondine and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, here we have the Fifth and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022
ENESCU Violin Concerto. Phantasy For Piano & Orchestra (Ruzicka)
Here we have two fascinating early works by Enescu not previously recorded. Enescu was already a graduate of the Vienna...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2022
ELIASSON Symphonies Nos 3 & 4. Trombone Concerto (Christian Lindberg)
Rather like Per Nørgård in Denmark, Anders Eliasson spent much of his career in Sweden pursuing and researching a compositional...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022
DOHNÁNYI Concertos; Variations on a Nursery Song
Spoiler alert. If you don’t know the opening three or four minutes of Variations on a Nursery Theme, skip this...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
BRIAN Symphonies Nos 3 & 17 (Pope)
There is a good case for considering Havergal Brian’s Third Symphony (1931 32) his first symphonic masterpiece. Beautifully balanced, dramatic...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
BRAHMS; SCHUMANN 'Lyrical Echoes'
This is the second volume in a series exploring, as Alexander Shelley puts it, ‘the closely intertwined personal and artistic...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Furtwängler)
Wilhelm Furtwängler’s way with Beethoven’s Choral Symphony approximates a shared ritual. It is quite literally spellbinding, whether in the slowly...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2022
AUCOIN 'Orphic Moments'
Not long turned 30, Massachusetts-born composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin is easily (perhaps too easily) pigeonholed as the Thomas Adès of his...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2022
LECLAIR; LOCATELLI; VIVALDI Violin Concertos (Théotime Langlois de Swarte)
I’ll start by getting all the bad things about this album out of the way. We are told that Théotime...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022
Pauline Kim Harris: Wild at Heart
The American musicologist Raymond Erickson has documented more than 200 versions of JS Bach’s Chaconne, ranging from the original for...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2022
D WHITE Complete Organ Music (Daryl Robinson)
David Ashley White’s solo organ works comprise what the composer calls a ‘small but indispensable’ part of his extensive catalogue...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2022
PERSICHETTI Organ Works (Iain Quinn)
This is an intelligently programmed album, representing about half of the music Vincent Persichetti (1915 87), who was a church...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022
MOZART 'Post Scriptum' (Sergei Kvitko)
Embellishing Mozart’s works for piano and orchestra is nothing new, yet Sergei Kvitko goes the extra mile throughout the three...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022
BRIDGE Piano Sonata SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Sonata No 2 (Sally Pinkas)
The piano sonatas of Shostakovich (his Second) and Frank Bridge are respectively dedicated to friends lost in war, and make...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022
Jeanine De Bique: Mirrors
Jeanine De Bique impressed me recently with her assured singing as La Folie in William Christie’s Platée (Harmonia Mundi, 12/21),...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2022
WEINBERG The Passenger (Kluttig)
Some 55 years after its composition and 25 years since its composer’s death, The Passenger has well and truly arrived....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2022
RAMEAU Achante et Céphise (Kossenko)
The pastorale-héroïque Acante et Céphise – the first name misprinted ‘Achante’ in the composer’s uncorrected first proof of the printed...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2022
PUCCINI Madama Butterfly (Foster)
Following hot on the heels of its recent Fanciulla del West, welcomed in these pages by Mark Pullinger (4/21), Pentatone...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2022
MOZART Die Zauberflöte (Jones)
This is a restaging of the production by David McVicar that was first seen in 2003, subsequently issued on DVD....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2022
Elsa Dreisig: Mozart x 3
Anyone who read her interview in January’s Gramophone will have got the message that Elsa Dreisig is a singer who...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2022
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