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JÓHANNSSON A Prayer To The Dynamo
A Prayer to the Dynamo (2012) was commissioned by Matthew Patton of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s new music festival, who...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2024
JARRELL Orchestral Works
As on its previous album (BIS2482) devoted to the music of Michael Jarrell (b1958), BIS has paired two of his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 2 & 5 (Poschner)
Markus Poschner’s recording of the 1877 version of the Second Symphony features a new edition by the Bruckner scholar Paul...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024
BRUCKNER Symphony No 0 (Nelsons)
With a conclusively established dating of its composition to 1869 – between Nos 1 and 2 – Bruckner’s first D...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Kreutzer Sonata (Nemanja Radulović)
Nemanja Radulović takes complete control of every aspect of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, playing the solo part while leading his own...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
CPE BACH Hamburg Symphonies Wq 182 (Janiczek)
For inspired craziness no 18th-century composer, surely, can touch Emanuel Bach. When Baron van Swieten, of Haydn Creation fame, commissioned...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2024
SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No 1 (Bruno Philippe)
You know when every aspect of an album just sings? Well, this is one of those, and not only because...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
Lowell Liebermann Plays Piano Music of Theodor Kirchner
Lowell Liebermann’s prowess at the keyboard usually takes a back seat to his prominence as a composer. He made up...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
GLASS 'Signature' (Angèle Dubeau)
Philip Glass’s music was the first to be featured in the series of ‘portrait’ albums by violinist Angèle Dubeau and...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2024
BOYCE The Bird is an Alphabet
For the American composer Douglas Boyce, writing music is an act of philosophising. Each of the recent vocal-chamber works gathered...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2024
ADLER Unholy Sonnets
While not an ardent fan of the art song medium, I have to say that this new Navona album of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
Verismo: Preludi e Intermezzi
Seeing the words Hindoyan and verismo in close conjunction I’d lazily anticipated a joint recital disc with the conductor’s wife,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2023
Cyrille Dubois: Jouissons de nos beaux ans!
Taking its title from an amorous chorus in Rameau’s Les Boréades (1763), this programme traverses French operatic genres spanning from...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2023
WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Fiore)
The opening signs for this Meistersinger are promising. The curtain of the Deutsche Oper Berlin stays closed as John Fiore...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2023
VERDI Ernani (Conlon)
Though Ernani shows Verdi at his dramatically incisive best in this early stage of his output, the opera still needs...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2023
PUCCINI Tosca (Albrecht)
How do you like your Tosca? Traditional or radical? Vienna offers both. At the Staatsoper, Margarethe Wallmann’s staging, premiered with...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2023
LULLY Thésée (Rousset )
With their latest release, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques continue their exploration of the operas of Lully. Premiered in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2023
LEHÁR Wiener Frauen (Burkert)
Poor Philip Rosner. What’s a nice young Viennese bridegroom to do when his fiancée’s former beloved (vanished, presumed drowned) reappears...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2023
GIORDANO Andrea Chénier (Armiliato)
When it was under the leadership of Nikolaus Bachler, the Bavarian State Opera rarely had a season without Jonas Kaufmann,...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 12/2023
DUNI Le peintre amoureux de son modèle. Les deux chasseurs et la laitière
Egidio Duni (1708‑75) is not a total stranger to the recorded catalogue but he hasn’t been a regular visitor to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2023
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