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ORTIZ Revolución diamantina

Mexican composer Gabriela Ortíz (b1964) carries on where Carlos Chávez, Silvestre Revueltas and other mid-20th-century modernists left off – creating...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024

MOZART Symphonies Nos 34-36 (Collins)

Michael Collins and the Philharmonia here kick off their projected Mozart symphony cycle in splendid style: three joyful, extrovert works...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2024

MOZART Sinfonia Concertante. Horn Concerto No 2 (Alexandre Zanetta)

Howard Griffiths’s ‘Next Generation Mozart Soloists’ series has done sterling work in promoting young musicians and giving them valuable studio...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos K503, K505, K595

Good things come to those who wait, they say, and at last – three decades on from its inauguration –...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Vänskä)

Positives first. This is a fine-sounding Mahler Third – up there with Manfred Honeck’s Pittsburgh account in the sonic stakes...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2024

ILLEAN arcing, stilling, bending, gathering

Lise Illean was born in Australia but is now based in the UK. Her compositions draw on landscapes that are...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024

HAYDN Cello Concertos (Cameron Crozman)

Performances of Joseph Haydn’s two cello concertos always seem to be about the fast outer movements, but these recordings by...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2024

GORDON Mythologies and Mad Songs

Richard Strauss once suggested that Elektra should be conducted like Mendelssohn’s ‘fairy music’. And if you’ve ever wondered what such...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2024

FAURÉ; SCHOENBERG Pelléas et Mélisande

Smart coupling. Two more contrasting takes on Maeterlinck’s symbolist drama would be hard to imagine: the Schoenberg heated and densely...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2024

COATES Orchestral Works Vol 4 (Wilson)

Eric Coates is a composer to whom one returns in the sure knowledge that the spirits will be lifted, the...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024

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