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'Round Midnight (Quatuor Ebène)
Fresh from their worldwide tour of Beethoven’s string quartets, the Quatuor Ébène come up with an ambitious project centred on...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2021
MENDELSSOHN String Quartets, Vol 2 (Doric String Quartet)
The Doric Quartet here conclude in magnificent style the cycle they began in October 2018. The line-up may have changed...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2021
Americascapes (Trevino)
Robert Trevino has put together a cleverly varied programme of little-known American orchestral works. Indeed, this is the premiere recording...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021
MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Jurowski)
Modern listeners tend to take Mahler’s proud claim for the Eighth as his greatest achievement with a soup-spoon of salt....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2021
GUBAIDULINA Dialog: Ich und Du. The Wrath of God. The Light of the End
There is always a spritual dimension to Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, and the violin concerto Dialog: Ich und Du is no...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2021
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra. Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta (Mälkki)
Susanna Mälkki’s thrilling sojourn in Duke Bluebeard’s Castle was roundly welcomed by me in the June issue of Gramophone –...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2021
Sabine Devieilhe: Bach. Handel
On the surface there is no recognisable thread that logically ties together the contents of this mouth-watering recital, although the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2021
Ieva Jokubaviciute: Northscapes
Ieva Jokubaviciute’s first album was a tribute to Alban Berg. Here, she focuses on the Nordic and Baltic states, with...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021
Reginald L Mobley: American Originals
San Francisco-based Agave’s third album with countertenor Reginald L Mobley pays tribute to Florence Price with eight tracks, none more...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2021
J HALL Songs 'Bold Beauty' (Molly Fillmore)
The title of this album of songs by Juliana Hall refers to a poetry set that became Cameos, one of...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2021
DEMSKE Journey for One (after Schubert's Winterreise)
The unwary might assume that Hilary Demske’s latest album is a transcription or reworking of Schubert’s great song-cycle, omitting the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021
RAVEL Ma Mère l'Oye BARTÓK from 44 Duos for Violin (High Low Duo)
When played on two electric guitars, the Mother Goose suite sounds less like Ravel transcribed than an Ennio Morricone score...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021
Véronique Gens: Passion
A couple of years ago, Alpha issued ‘L’opéra des opéras’ (4/19), a new pasticcio made up of airs and other...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2021
Anna Netrebko: Amata dalle tenebre
Anna Netrebko’s new recital is about love and emotional darkness, heroines in extremis and confrontations with mortality, which takes her...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2021
George Gagnidze: Opera Arias
Audiences in the UK will have had limited opportunities to see George Gagnidze perform. There was a minor role in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2021
J STRAUSS II Waldmeister (Salvi)
It’s always nice to put an operetta to an overture. Johann Strauss’s Waldmeister (1895) was a moderate success in its...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2021
SAINT-SAËNS La princesse jaune (Hussain)
Premiered at the Opéra-Comique 1872, in a double bill with Bizet’s Djamileh, La princesse jaune was the first of Saint-Saëns’s...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2021
JOMMELLI Il Vologeso (Page)
Il Vologeso was composed towards the end of Jommelli’s time as Ober-Kapellmeister at the court of the Duke of Württemberg....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2021
HOFMANNSTHAL Jedermann (Ensemble 013)
The irony would not have been lost on Hugo von Hofmannsthal, inveterate snob and Anglophile, that his Freudian updating of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021
GLASS Akhnaten (Kamensek)
Ancient Egyptian pharaohs, priests, ceremony, death and … juggling? Is this a Regietheater staging of Aida set in a circus?...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2021
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