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BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 1872; Symphony No 3 1889 (Poschner)
Although Bruckner revised his Second Symphony several times after its initial composition in 1872, there’s much to be said for...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2024
BRAHMS; BUSONI Violin Concertos (Francesca Dego)
Italian-born Francesca Dego returns to the successful formula of her debut concerto disc (DG, 2/18), pairing an Italian rarity with...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2024
William Youn: Boulanger, Fauré, Hahn
Lovers of French rarities will enjoy this stroll down the boulevard of belle époque Paris featuring Reynaldo Hahn’s Piano Concerto...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
BACEWICZ; ENESCU; YSAŸE Music for Strings
Three string-playing composers who hailed from the same Franco-Belgian school of string pedagogy – this album from John Wilson’s Sinfonia...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024
MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Rattle)
The autumn of Simon Rattle’s illustrious career continues to deliver in abundance. This deeply impressive account of Mahler’s harrowing Sixth...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2024
Kay Kyung Eun Kim: Soundscape
The Korean pianist Kay Kyung Eun Kim, a champion of contemporary works and innovative keyboard techniques, offers pieces by three...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 04/2024
SIMON Tales - A Folklore Symphony
‘Tales is an exploration of African American folklore and Afrofuturist stories’, Carlos Simon writes in the booklet note for this...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
REALE 'American Mosaic'
Out of an opening cry and terse introduction, Kim Cook rises magnificently in Paul Reale’s Cello Concerto against a landscape...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2024
American Counterpoints
So many composers have been neglected in concert halls and opera houses due to prejudice that devoted musicians have decided...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2024
KARCHIN 'Keyboards/Winds'
>Like most earthlings during the coronavirus pandemic, Louis Karchin had an inordinate amount of time on his hands. He responded...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2024
ROSSINI Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra (Fogliani)
Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra was an important turning point, both in Rossini’s career and in the development of serious opera in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2024
MASCAGNI Cavalleria rusticana (Hengelbrock)
Here’s a Cavalleria rusticana with a difference. Not only do Thomas Hengelbrock and his Balthasar Neumann forces offer historically informed...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024
CIMAROSA L'Italiana in Londra (Hussain)
Premiered at Rome’s Teatro Valle in 1779, Cimarosa’s breezy intermezzo comico L’italiana in Londra made his European reputation. Playing on...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2024
CHARPENTIER Médée (Niquet)
This is only the third commercial sound recording of Médée (1693) – the first to come along in nearly 30...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2024
BORGSTRØM Fiskeren (Boye Hansen)
I’m all for full-scale operas that clock in under 90 minutes. And that’s far from the only good thing about...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2024
A Gardener’s World : Flowers in Song
It’s appropriate that Alessandro Fisher’s debut on Rubicon should be a recording of a recital he gave at Wigmore Hall...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2024
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 'Retrospect'
Norman Del Mar’s version of In Windsor Forest (the cantata that Vaughan Williams compiled from his opera Sir John in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024
TOSTI 'Sogno'
Italian-born Sir Paolo Tosti KCVO (1846-1916) was the toast of Victorian England, singing teacher to the royal family and the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024
STRAUSS Four Last Songs (Asmik Grigorian)
Asmik Grigorian is undeniably one of the most exciting operatic talents on the scene today, as formidable performances as Salome,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024
'Richard: Strauss & Wagner'
Nearly three years after I welcomed his fine disc of Strauss songs built around the humorous Krämerspiegel, Op 66 (7/21),...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024
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