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BRUCKNER Symphony No 5 (Shani)

Lahav Shani’s recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony was warmly welcomed by Richard Osborne in these pages last year (8/23), and...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2024

Earth, Sea, Air: British Music for Cello and Orchestra (Laura van der Heijden)

If one were asked to sum up young British cellist Laura van der Heijden’s career to date, then beyond its...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto

Few concertos establish a more vivid sense of anticipation than Beethoven does at the start of his Triple Concerto, a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2024

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 'Eroica'. Coriolan (Fischer)

After the heroic first movement and the tragic second, writes Iván Fischer in a brief foreword to this new Budapest...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2024

Young & Foolish: Mozart & CPE Bach

A ‘very singular double concerto’ is how Richard Bratby described CPE Bach’s work for two keyboards in an interview in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2024

Bertrand Chamayou 'Cage2'

It’s over 30 years since Cage’s death in 1992, yet opinions remain divided about the American composer’s music and his...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2024

Wide As Heaven: A Century of Song By Black American Composers

This album’s wonderfully varied programme is more than a showcase for baritone James Martin’s engrossing artistry or a historical survey....

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 07/2024

ZWILICH Symphony No 5 (Rose)

Throughout a long and fertile career, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has created works rich in character and emotion, and marked by...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2024

THOMSON Piano Portraits (Craig Rutenberg)

Virgil Thomson’s more than 150 musical portraits span 60 years of creative activity. With few exceptions, he composed them in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7 LUDWIG Violin Concerto (Bella Hristova)

Though there’s much ingratiating listening here, the Buffalo Philharmonic’s self-produced disc is most important as a calling card to show...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024

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