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LIEBERMANN Frankenstein
Within just five years of its publication in 1818, Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel inspired a stage play that became...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 02/2022
JANÁCEK On An Overgrown Path (Karsko)
How good is your French? The two parts of Janáček’s On an Overgrown Path – the 10 pieces published in...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022
HINDEMITH Clarinet Concerto. Clarinet Quartet. Clarinet Sonata (Sharon Kam)
Israeli-born, Hanover-resident Sharon Kam (b1971) studied with Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School in New York. In a successful global...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022
HAYDN 'Haydn 2032' Vol 11: Symphonies 2, 24, 82, 87 (Antonini)
Eleven volumes and 35 symphonies down, Giovanni Antonini now reaches a third of the way through his Haydn cycle with...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2022
EISLER Couplets. Ballads. Orchestral Suites 2-4. Die Letzte Nacht
This double-CD set offers a valuable and absorbing selection of Hanns Eisler’s songs and shorter orchestral works from across his...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2022
BRIDGE. ELGAR Cello Concertos (Gabriel Schwabe)
Following the solo cello’s emotional declaration at the opening of Elgar’s Concerto, the violas begin a quietly doleful, lilting tune...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022
BRAHMS Symphony No 1, Violin Concerto (Stéphanie-Marie Degand)
We’ve had a bumper crop of historically informed recordings of the Brahms symphonies over the past quarter of a century...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022
AUBER Overtures Vol 5 - Zanetta, Zerline (Salvi)
Readers of Jules Verne will remember that among the treasures of human civilisation that Captain Nemo assembled in the library...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 6-9 (Savall)
Chapeau to Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations. The pandemic delayed the completion of their Beethoven symphony cycle but...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2022
Georges Cziffra: 1956‑1986 The Complete Studio Recordings
The life and legend of Georges (originally György) Cziffra (1921 94) could not have been invented by the most creative...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022
Mariss Jansons: The Edition
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is the youngest of the great German symphony orchestras, founded under Eugen Jochum’s direction in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2022
Stephen Powell: Why do the Nations
Yet another move towards the playlist format for song recitals? If so, it’s a thoughtful one, with the singer acting...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2022
MULLER Antillean Dances (Louise Bessette)
A native of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles, Wim Statius Muller (1930-2019) studied piano and composition with Josef Raieff at...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022
MACHOVER Death and the Powers
Tod Machover’s science-fiction opera about robots and humans, set to a libretto by Robert Pinsky, was designed with a spectacular...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 01/2022
KROUSE Symphony No 5. Symphonies of Strings Nos 1 & 2
Ian Krouse (b1956) is probably known best on the one hand for works for guitar quartet (1/14), one based on...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2022
Sarah Aristidou: Æther
'We may not be able to change the world, but we can change our relationship to it, starting with our...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2022
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sadko (Zangiev)
When an opera is deconstructed – when it is given a new story, and the sets disassembled on stage –...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 01/2022
MOZART Mitridate, re di Ponto (Minkowski)
For an opera that was not revived after its initial performances until the 1970s, Mitridate has done surprisingly well on...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2022
HOLTEN Schlagt Sie Tot! (Ringborg)
The subject of Schlagt sie tot! (2018) is Martin Luther, viewed through the personal and political aftermath of his nailing...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2022
HENZE Das verratene Meer (Young)
The sailor who fell from grace with the sea made pretty shocking reading for this listener as a teenager, prompted...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2022
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