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HARBISON Diotima. Symphony No 11
Diotima (1976) was John Harbison’s first orchestral work and the Sixth Symphony (2012) is his most recent (and, the composer...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2022
DEBUSSY; SCHOENBERG Pelléas et Mélisande
Here it would be nice to say we have two for the price of one: two versions of Pelléas and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2022
BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Poschner)
This second instalment in Capriccio’s ambitious project to record all of the versions of the symphonies in the New Anton...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2022
BRUCKNER Symphony No 1 (Thielemann)
Ahead of the planned release of Christian Thielemann’s recording of Bruckner’s First Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in his...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2022
BRAHMS Violin Concerto (Oscar Shumsky)
‘The most astounding genius I have ever heard’, declared Leopold Stokowski after hearing the seven-year-old Oscar Shumsky, who made his...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022
BARBER; BRUCH; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Works for Violin (Sonoko Miriam Welde)
It may be more usual for a young artist to dip their first toes in the recording waters with a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2022
Christian Svarfvar: Infinite Bach
Purists will doubtless scoff at the idea of another album of recomposed Baroque music but there is some justification when...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2022
Lise Davidsen: Grieg
This album is something of an A&R executive’s dream: two Norwegian superstars – and exclusive artists for rival labels –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
Stewart Goodyear: Phoenix
The concept for Canadian-Trinidadian pianist Stewart Goodyear’s latest album is something of a puzzle. Its title, ‘Phoenix’, derives, so the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021
Jonah Kim: Approaching Autumn
Jonah Kim has taken Approaching Autumn, the title of Mark Abel’s new work for cello and piano, as the title...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021
KIM; ISANG Complete works for solo violin (Chi Young Song)
This is not the first time that Earl Kim (1920 98) and Isang Yun (1917 95) have appeared together on...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021
RUO A Dust in Time
It begins with cello and viola answering one another in slow, sombre gestures. Two violins join the conversation, which builds...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2021
JS BACH Inventions, Sinfonias, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (Paulina Zamora)
Paulina Zamora certainly has Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias under her fingers, and she plays clearly and cleanly at all times....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2021
ROSNER The Chronicle of Nine: The Tragedy of Queen Jane
Arnold Rosner (1945-2013) was admirably prolific for a composer whose music was mostly neglected during his lifetime. His output includes...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2021
RAMEAU Platée (Christie)
Rameau’s Platée was described in its time as a ballet bouffon, an example of the kind of ambiguous, seemingly ad...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2021
MASSENET Thaïs (Hussain)
Despite its luscious music, Massenet’s Thaïs doesn’t get many stagings, probably because directors have a hard time taking the plot...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021
HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler (de Billy)
I vividly recall the first time I heard the great (albeit brief) Alleluia Duet at the close of Tableau 6...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021
HANDEL Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (La Lira di Orfeo)
This recording of a staged production at Piacenza in October 2020 claims to be a ‘reconstruction and critical edition’ of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2021
DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande (Dumoussaud)
For a quintessentially French opera, there are surprisingly few recordings of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande with a French orchestra. There...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021
Julien Van Mellaerts: Songs of Travel and Home
This disc would be notable if only because it’s the debut recital recording of the much-awarded and much-travelled New Zealand-born...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2021
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