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SAARIAHO Maan Varjot. Château de l'ame. True Fire. Offrande
The new Kaija Saariaho-funded organ at the Musiikkitalo in Helsinki has sparked a mini-revival for the composer’s organ concerto Maan...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2024
MOZART Overtures (Willens)
Discs entirely devoted to Mozart overtures are rare, with good reason. With the familiar works the ear repeatedly craves the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2024
KRAUS Overtures (Astronio)
German composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born the same year as Mozart, trained in Mannheim and worked at the culturally...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024
HELLSTENIUS Public Behaviour. Together
Looking for something to blow the musical cobwebs away? Try Henrik Hellstenius. For the past three decades, the Norwegian composer...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2024
HAYDN J &M Violin Concerto No 4; Concerto For Harpsichord & Viola
‘Slender pieces of modest charm’ is how Richard Wigmore describes the violin concertos in his indispensable Faber Pocket Guide to...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024
FIRSOVA Piano Concerto (Yefim Bronfman)
Elena Firsova’s 18-minute, three-movement Piano Concerto – not to be confused with her Piano Concerto No 1 of 1985, which...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024
Mer(s): Debussy, Dukas, Cras
The concept behind Mathieu Herzog’s Appassionato would seem to me to be one of chamber music (and the mindset implicit...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2024
BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Hindoyan)
Domingo Hindoyan’s interpretation of the Fourth Symphony is well paced, admirably attentive to dynamics and avoids any interpretative eccentricities. Solo...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2024
BRITTEN Violin Concerto (Baiba Skride)
This vividly recorded account of Britten’s 1939 Violin Concerto is uniquely paired with the Double Concerto for violin and viola...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 03/2024
BERKELEY; RAVEL; POUNDS Orchestral Works (Wilson)
Born in London in 1954, Adam Pounds attended the London College of Music before going on to study privately with...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024
JANÁČEK Katya Kabanova (Rattle)
This Katya Kabanova forms the second instalment of Simon Rattle’s LSO Live series of Janáček’s major operas, begun in summer...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2024
John Holt: Facets Five
John Holt’s eighth recording for Crystal begins with eight pleasant recital pieces before finishing with a chamber music masterwork, Eric...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2024
COPLAND; CRESTON; KAY; PISTON Concertos & Orchestral Suites
The National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic may be an occasional ensemble, tied to annual festivals at the University of Maryland, but...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2024
CABANISS Four Elements
Collaborative undertakings for the stage comprise a significant portion of Thomas Cabaniss’s oeuvre – not only operas but dance works...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 03/2024
Shades of Romani Folklore
With so many superb young string quartets active on the music scene, it is heartening to realise that the genre...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2024
VERDI I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (Repušić)
Verdi’s fourth opera, I Lombardi, comes with little consensus opinion, the music suggesting an overlooked masterwork though the beyond-pedestrian libretto...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta. The Nutcracker (Wellber)
Iolanta, Tchaikovsky’s final opera, and The Nutcracker, his final ballet, premiered together at the Mariinsky Theatre in December 1892. Initial...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2024
ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Mariotti)
It took a French theatre director of genius, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, to give us a near-definitive staging of the Beaumarchais-Rossini Il...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2024
PUCCINI Tosca (Montanaro)
This new Tosca forms the latest release in Pentatone’s Puccini series centred round the pairing of American soprano Melody Moore...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2024
PORPORA Polifemo (Petrou)
The Opera of the Nobility’s production of Polifemo ran at the King’s Theatre from February to June 1735 in direct...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
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