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Renewal
Following up on their very well-received debut album ‘In Motion’ (2/21), the United Strings of Europe (formed by students at...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022
Raffaele La Ragione: Mandolin on Stage
Many of these performances warm into truly enjoyable interpretations, though what inspires this slowly-does-it, tentative approach, I’m not certain. Take...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2022
Simon Callaghan: British Piano Concertos
The title of this album, ‘British Piano Concertos’, may be self-effacing but the contents are anything but, with five of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2022
WEINBERG Works for Cello & Orchestra. Chamber Symphony No 4 (Pieter Wispelwey)
Weinberg’s recorded coverage expands apace, this release featuring three of his concertante works in readings that eschew the asperities of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022
STOJOWSKI Symphony Op 21. Suite for Orchestra Op 9 (Wit)
It is not difficult to guess why Zygmunt (sometimes Sigismond) Stojowski’s Symphony in D minor, Op 21 (1898) failed to...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2022
SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 (Hughes)
The second instalment of Owain Arwel Hughes’s Sibelius cycle is a pairing of the Second and Fourth Symphonies with a...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2022
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 WEILL Symphony No 2 (Shani)
An eye- (and ear-) catching coupling. Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is front and centre of the core repertoire these days –...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2022
SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Alexandre Kantorow)
The prospect of a recording of any of Saint-Saëns’s works for piano and orchestra is always a delightful one. You...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2022
RIHM #39 & #40: Sphäre Nach Studie. Stabat Mater. Male über Male 2. Jagden und Formen
In our polystylistic age, has any major composer been more polystylistic than Wolfgang Rihm? On the turn of a dime,...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2022
RAUTAVAARA Lost Landscapes: Works For Violin and Orchestra (Simone Lamsma)
Here we have ‘late-period Rautavaara’ – music written after the composer’s aortic dissection of 2004 and the extensive convalescence that...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2022
PEJACEVIC Piano Concerto Op 33. Symphony Op 41 (Peter Donohoe)
Though not world-premiere recordings – both the Symphony in F sharp minor (1916‑17) and the Piano Concerto in G minor...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2022
MOZART Piano Concertos, Vol 4 - K503; K466 (Anne Marie McDermott)
Anne-Marie McDermott reaches the fourth volume of her Mozart cycle with various conductors, offering the same concerto coupling as Jeremy...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2022
MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 22 & 23 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)
The word ‘naturalness’ is such a cliché, yet it applies to every aspect of this release. Take the opening ritornello...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2022
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 1. Piano Sextet (Yuja Wang)
Yuja Wang is clearly the star billing on this new release in DG’s recently launched Verbier Festival Gold digital-only series....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2022
HENDRICKX; MOZART 'Flow' Clarinet Concertos (Annelien Van Wauwe)
During lockdown, while some of us got stuck into baking sourdough, clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe practised yoga and commissioned Flemish...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2022
GUBAIDULINA Orchestral Works (Kalitzke; Klee)
This is a most interesting collection of three of Sofia Gubaidulina’s less-heard orchestral works. Pro et contra, from 1989, is...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3 (Kristian Bezuidenhout)
Remember the Beethoven semiquincentennial? The 250th-birthday celebration which was squeezed, contorted, if not ignored all together, in the face of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022
HANDEL La Resurrezione (Bicket)
Amid a string of triumphs from Handel’s glittering Roman sojourns, none rivalled the sacred oratorio La Resurrezione di Nostro Signor...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2022
Boyd Meets Girl: Songs of Love & Despair
The intimate character of Boyd Meets Girl’s new album is apparent right from the outset of the first track, their...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
TEIRSTEIN 'Restless Nation'
Andy Teirstein (b1957) composed his string quartet Restless Nation (2010, rev 2020) after a sabbatical year during which, with his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
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