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DEBUSSY Jeux STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra (Roth)
François-Xavier Roth has released recordings of both of these works before – the Strauss recorded a decade ago with the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2023
BRUCH; PRICE Violin Concertos (Randall Goosby)
You can absolutely hear why Randall Goosby has been turning heads with his open-hearted, generous ‘school of Perlman’ delivery. There’s...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2023
BRIAN Symphonies Nos 8, 9, 22 & 24 (Fredman)
With this marvellous archival release – specifically that of the Ninth (1951) – of BBC broadcasts conducted by Myer Fredman,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra (Canellakis)
The curtain-raiser somewhat eclipses the main event in this instance. Why we don’t hear more of Bartók’s Four Orchestral Pieces...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2023
Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem
Lionel Meunier and Ricercar producer Jérôme Lejeune were working together on Vox Luminis’s critically acclaimed recording of Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2023
Sarah Cahill: The Future is Female Vol 3
The third and final volume of Sarah Cahill’s ‘The Future is Female’ offers a chronologically wide-ranging selection of music composed...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 06/2023
WIEMANN I Give You My Home
Although advertised as a chamber opera – even a ‘site-specific’ chamber opera (of which more later) – I Give You...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023
MAZZOLI Dark with Excessive Bright
Missy Mazzoli writes so brilliantly for the violin in Dark with Excessive Bright that it is hard to believe the...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2023
BURWASSER Flights of Imagination
This attractive, well-played album gathers together in one place five disparate works by Daniel Burwasser (b1960) previously issued separately in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023
Michael Spyres: Contra-Tenor
After ‘BariTenor’, which caused a considerable stir on its release two years ago (A/21), we have ‘Contra-Tenor’, ostensibly its prequel,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2023
OFFENBACH La Vie Parisienne (Dumas)
A city of pleasure: nightclubs and hotels, conmen and sex workers, and an opening chorus set in a railway terminus....
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2023
Franco Fagioli: Anime Immortali - Mozart Arias
‘Sweet, flexible and extensive, being in compass more than two octaves’ was music historian Charles Burney’s verdict on Venanzio Rauzzini,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2023
MOZART Die Verstellte Gärtnerin ('La Finta Gardiniera')
‘Moderately amusing and immoderately long’ was the much-missed John Steane’s witty summary of La finta giardiniera. Though I’d rate it...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2023
BLOW Venus & Adonis PURCELL Dido & Aeneas (Boman)
Venus and Adonis and Dido and Aeneas have been linked so often in the history books that it’s surprising they...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2023
Tears from the Soul
These days, whenever five viol players are gathered together, somebody is going to haul out the Dow Partbooks. There are...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2023
Sword in the Soul: Grier; Elgar; Bednall; Park
Premiered on Radio 4 in 1991, Sword in the Soul is a product of another age – one in which...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2023
Rolling River: American Choral
The ancient English choral tradition meets contemporary American choral music in ‘Rolling River’, the latest recording from Graham Ross and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2023
Maria Mater Meretrix
‘Maria Mater Meretrix’ is a concept album that effectively explores the male-created female stereotypes or ‘classical female phenomenologies’ (as the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2023
Magnificat 3
To record one volume of Anglican canticles may be regarded as a misfortune. To record three (four, once the series...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2023
RUBBRA Songs 'The Jaded Mountain'
Here’s a most welcome and hugely enterprising anthology, which gathers together all of Edmund Rubbra’s published songs featuring piano or...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2023
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