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More Bach, Please!

Seeing this album’s title, I couldn’t help but picture Oliver Twist with arms stretched out in hunger. But it’s not...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW2024

ELGAR Violin Concerto (Vilde Frang)

Some of the very best recordings of Elgar’s Violin Concerto take me back in my imagination to the Queen’s Hall...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: AW2024

Midsummer Night Magic

The sisters comprising The Lee Trio are violinist Lisa Lee, cellist Angela Lee and pianist Melinda Lee Masur, who appear...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW2024

Clear Voices In The Dark

‘There is one work … that reassures me that I have the right to compose’, wrote Francis Poulenc about Figure...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: AW2024

SIMON Four Symphonic Works (Noseda)

I reviewed this recording of Carlos Simon’s Tales: A Folklore Symphony (2021) when Noseda and the NSO released it as...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024

Exodus: Kaufmann, Rubin, Tal

The diaspora of Jewish composers from Hitler’s Reich was wider and deeper than just to the USA (eg Korngold, Schoenberg,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2024

POHJOLA String Quartets Nos 5-7 (New Helsinki Quartet)

Seppo Pohjola (b1965) is one of the most undeservedly underexposed composers alive and one whose music, never incidental, is always...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/23

WAGNER Parsifal (Heras-Casado)

While Wagner’s final opera traditionally commands the best from the greatest musicians of any era, the visual presentation of Parsifal...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2024

VERDI 'Noble Renegades: Scenes and Arias'

Noble renegades? Here, they’re often simply loud. Charles Castronovo – featured on some 25 recordings and DVDs over the 20...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2024

VERDI Aida (Pappano)

Robert Carsen’s Covent Garden staging of Aida, filmed during its opening run in October 2022, essentially dispenses with Egypt and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2024

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