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LEVANON; MARTIN; POULENC; SHOSTAKOVICH Works For Pianos and Orchestra
MultiPiano Ensemble’s new album features new arrangements of works by Martin and Shostakovich approved by the composers’ families as well...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023
KAPUSTIN Piano Concerto No 5. Concerto Op 104. Sinfonietta Op 49 (Frank Dupree)
The astonishing Frank Dupree here continues his Kapustin odyssey with the fifth of the composer’s six piano concertos, and two...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023
HAYDN Complete Symphonies, Vol. 27 (Klumpp)
Johannes Klumpp continues sweeping up the remaining early symphonies in the Haydn cycle inaugurated by Thomas Fey almost a quarter...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023
HANDEL Concerti grossi Op 3; Op 6 (Dantone)
Ravenna-based Accademia Bizantina and harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone have never been monogamous with record companies – their prolific discography has been...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2023
BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (1887 Version. Poschner)
In 1887, after three years of work, Bruckner sent the completed score of the Eighth Symphony to the conductor Hermann...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto (Veronika Eberle)
My discovery of this extraordinarily recreative take on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto coincided with a period when the notion of ‘presentism’...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2023
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 (Boris Giltburg)
The Third and Fourth Concertos round out what has been an impressive Beethoven cycle. Let’s start with the conducting. Vasily...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023
ARNOLD Clarinet Concerto No 1 (Michael Collins)
Earworm alert! Originally composed for brass band and presented here in a splendidly idiomatic orchestration by Philip Lane, Malcolm Arnold’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2023
ABRAMS 'The American Project' (Yuja Wang)
‘The American Project’ is a grand title for a recording of a forgettable new piano concerto by an American conductor-composer,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2023
MOZART String Quintets K515 & K516
Mozart’s most famous quintets conclude a sequence of four instrumental works from the winter and spring of 1786 87 whose...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2023
Crossing Barriers: New Music for Brass Trio
For their debut recording, the Lantana Trio – Raquel Samayoa (trumpet), Stacie Mickens (horn) and Natalie Mannix (trombone), all faculty...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2023
MORRIS Kaleidoscope
The music of Craig Madden Morris (b1945 in New York; not to be confused with the Grammy-nominated trumpeter, b1968 in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
FRANCK; VIERNE 'First and Last' (Christopher Houlihan)
Christopher Houlihan rightly views the French Romantic symphonic organ tradition as being bookended by Franck’s Grande pièce symphonique and Vierne’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023
JS BACH; WUORINEN Charles Wuorinen: A Tribute (Steven Beck)
It’s easy to hear why Steven Beck’s staggeringly meticulous interpretations of Charles Wuorinen’s piano works pleased the late composer. He...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023
Renée Fleming: Greatest Moments at the Met
Renée Fleming’s artistic stature hasn’t kept pace with her superstardom – isn’t that so often the case? – and this...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2023
PORPORA L’Angelica (Sardelli)
You might recognise the names of three of the characters listed above from two operas: Lully’s Roland (1685) and Handel’s...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2023
MATTHESON Boris Goudenow (Marchiol)
A Boris by Mattheson? Well yes, and in its way perhaps no less political in aspect than Mussorgsky’s. Johann Mattheson...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023
LULLY Psyché (Rousset)
Another Lully opera already from Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques – we had Acis et Galatée only in November....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023
HANDEL Semele (Walls)
How do you recreate the shock of Handel’s Semele – the musical drama that sent a scandalous frisson through London...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2023
AUBER Le philtre (Acocella)
You won’t get far into the plot of Auber’s 1831 ‘petit opéra’ Le philtre without a faint sensation of déjà...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2023
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