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PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 (Welser-Möst)
I hope readers who only listen to CDs will not miss out on this fine, but digital-only, recording. Franz Welser-Möst...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2023
NORDHEIM The Tempest: Suite From the Ballet
When reviewing the first recording of Arne Nordheim’s then very new Suite from his ballet The Tempest (1979), recorded for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023
MYASKOVSKY Cello Concerto (Raphael Wallfisch)
Myaskovsky’s concertante and duo sonata works are not numerous, and those with cello fit snugly on to a single CD....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2023
MESSIAEN Des canyons aux étoiles... (Fischer)
The Utah Symphony has enjoyed something of a golden era under the direction of Thierry Fischer, and this latest release...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2023
MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Bychkov)
The character of this reading – and it does not, alas, confound expectations – is clearly established at the outset:...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023
ÍSÓLFSSON; VIÐAR Icelandic Works for the Stage (Gamba)
While Jón Leifs was flitting between Reykjavik and Berlin there were Icelandic composers who stayed put – or at least...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2023
GOMES Opera Overtures and Preludes
Born in Campinas, Brazil, Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836 96) studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Rio de Janeiro before a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023
ELFMAN Violin Concerto 'Eleven Eleven' HAILSTORK Piano Concerto No 1
It’s second time around for soloist Sandy Cameron in Danny Elfman’s Concerto for amplified violin and orchestra (the subtitle Eleven...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2023
BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Thielemann)
Christian Thielemann’s Bruckner cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra continues apace with this refined performance of the Ninth Symphony, recorded...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2023
BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Roth)
This is a superb account of the original 1874 version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, first published in 1975 in Leopold...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2023
AHO Violin Concerto No 2. Cello Concerto No 2
He may be best known for his 17 symphonies but Kalevi Aho (b1949) has also written 38 concertos that, between...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2023
ADÈS Dante (Dudamel)
We’ve had a whiff of Thomas Adès’s ballet score Dante in Gramophone’s pages before. Last year I reviewed a performance...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2023
GESUALDO Madrigali, Books 5 & 6
At the end of a multi-volume survey such as this, one inevitably reflects on the whole project as much as...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2023
Permutations
There is a fascinating dichotomy at the heart of this album, one that – for once – produces positive results...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023
I and Thou
That the 21st century seems not only to have liberated cello duos but unleashed them is amply demonstrated by VC2,...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2023
Difficult Grace
Seth Parker Woods puts his stylistic range and extraordinary musicianship on display in this intensely personal programme. In Fredrick Gifford’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023
TEMPLE Behind the Wallpaper
The Spektral Quartet kept audiences on the edge of their seats in a vast repertoire from 2010 until last year,...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2023
HOLLAND Guitar Works and Arrangements (Christopher Mallett)
The name Justin Holland may not be familiar to many music lovers but it is cherished by classical guitarists, especially...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2023
JS BACH 'Clavichord' (András Schiff)
The booklet note to Schiff’s latest early keyboard venture with ECM offers factual and circumstantial arguments for Bach having a...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2023
Cyrille Dubois: So Romantique!
Light lyric tenor Cyrille Dubois is fast becoming the poster boy for Palazzetto Bru Zane, the Venetian cultural institution dedicated...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2023
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