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BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Blomstedt)

This live performance of Bruckner’s last symphony filmed in the basilica of St Florian provides a memorable epilogue to last...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2025

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto (Nicola Benedetti)

Last year I welcomed a Philharmonia recording of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto under Santtu-Matias Rouvali (7/24), where, as I wrote at...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2025

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 2 ANDRES The Blind Banister (Jonathan Biss)

I would urge anyone who cares about piano-playing or, more specifically, music-making on the piano, but who hasn’t followed the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2025

WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer (Gardner)

This Dutchman might appear a quickie recording – remember those Luciano Pavarotti discs when the world was first discovering him?...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2025

River of Fire

The Cavatina Duo’s new album explores Romani musical traditions and themes of migration, resilience and cultural adaptation through five premiere...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2025

Michael Jinsoo Lim: Kinetic

This intelligently assembled recital of contemporary solo violin music provides a vivid portrait of Michael Jinsoo Lim’s first-class musicianship and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2025

Incantations

Fung Chern Hwei (Fung is the family name, Chern Hwei his forename), Gregor Huebner, Sunjay Jayaram and Jeremy Harman are...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2025

Dazzling Light

For a well-crafted anthology of great sacred choral music, one could do no better than trying this lovely new album...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2025

Vannina Santoni: Par Amour

A familiar figure to French audiences, and much admired in these pages as Mélisande with François-Xavier Roth (Harmonia Mundi, 3/22)...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2025

WELDON The Judgment of Paris (Perkins)

‘In March 1700 the bookseller and publisher Jacob Tonson announced in The London Gazette that “Several Persons of Quality” had...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2025

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