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Raphaela Gromes: Femmes
‘Femmes’ is Raphaela Gromes’s response to a friend’s suggestion that she record an album of music by women. It’s an...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2023
Altissima: Works For High Baroque Trumpet (Josh Cohen)
Programmes dedicated to the skilled art of solo ‘clarino’ playing – the valveless high trumpet of the Baroque – are...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2023
WILMS The Piano Concertos, Vol 2 (Ronald Brautigam)
For Brahms, the towering example of Beethoven presented an intimidating challenge. Half a century earlier, German-born, Dutch-domiciled Johann Wilhelm Wilms...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2023
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 (Liss. Sanderling)
Two accounts of this great symphony – some would argue (not me) Shostakovich’s greatest – neither about to shake up...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023
C & R SCHUMANN Piano Concertos (Beatrice Rana)
Prodigy Clara Schumann (Wieck at the time) was 14 when she wrote the third movement of her Concerto, and 16...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2023
SCHUMANN Symphony Nos 3 & 4 (Alsop)
‘Subtle’ is the adjective used on the inlay card for this concluding volume of Mahler’s reorchestrations of Schumann’s symphonies. Well,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2023
SANTORO Fantasias Sul América. Sonata For Solo Violin
The title of this series of solo works has nothing to do with South America in the sense that one...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2023
PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos (Maria Milstein)
Gone are the days when these scores occupied a less than central place in the repertoire. Recent recordings have set...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2023
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 2. Symphony No 2 (Andrei Korobeinikov)
Prokofiev at his most excessive makes for an unusual but perfectly logical concerto-symphony coupling. That it should come courtesy of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2023
NIELSEN Symophonies Nos 2 & 6 (Luisi)
The final instalment in this marvellous cycle of the Carl Nielsen symphonies does not disappoint. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023
MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 3-5 (Gottfried von der Goltz)
That Gottfried von der Goltz and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra have arrowed straight to the three most popular (and uncoincidentally...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023
MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 24 & 25 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s happy collaboration with Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Manchester Camerata in the Mozart piano concertos, begun in 2016, has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2023
MASKATS Accordion Concerto. Tango. Cantus Diatonicus; My River Runs To Thee
One of Arturs Maskats’s intentions with his symphonic poem Tango (2002), which came third in the 2003 Masterprize International Composers’...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2023
DURANTE Concerti per archi
‘The greatest harmonist in Italy, that is to say in the world’, wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau of Francesco Durante in his...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023
1923 - Le Miroir de Jésus; The Wild Sound of the 20s: Bartók; Krenek; Toch; Weill
‘The Wild Sound of the 20s’ is the subtitle that Bavarian Radio has given a programming strand celebrating the year...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2023
BORENSTEIN Piano Concerto. Shirim. Light & Darkness
This album provides an excellent opportunity to hear three recent works by the Israeli-French-British composer Nimrod Borenstein, all of which...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2023
BARTÓK The Wooden Prince. Dance Suite
I’ve yet to see a staged double-bill of Bartók’s symbolist ballet The Wooden Prince and his allegorical operatic masterpiece Duke...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023
JS BACH; PÄRT Violin Concertos (Arabella Steinbacher)
There are no booklet notes to speak of attached to this Bach and Pärt programme from Arabella Steinbacher. Just a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2023
JS BACH 'Bachs Königin'
An intriguingly organised album from Holland Baroque. The ensemble have made a name for themselves with their cross-cultural ‘encounters’, including...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023
BACEWICZ Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Borowicz)
The past few years have seen a regular flow of releases of Grażyna Bacewicz’s music, and recordings of many of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2023
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