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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 (Noseda)
There is much to commend in Noseda’s account of this most extraordinary symphony – and I speak as one whose...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022
NIELSEN; SIBELIUS Violin Concertos (Johan Dalene)
Johan Dalene’s Nielsen Concerto was, to some extent, a known quantity. The young Swede won the Nielsen Competition in 2019...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022
KORNGOLD Complete Incidental Music - Much Ado About Nothing. der Vampir
Four decades into the Korngold revival, it’s a pleasant surprise to be confronted with something completely unfamiliar. In this case,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2022
GUNNING Flute Concertino. Clarinet Concerto. Guitar Concerto
The reissue of Christopher Gunning’s Discovery releases on the Signum label continues with a trio of concertos to which Edward...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022
GERSHWIN; RACHMANINOV Rhapsody (Martin James Bartlett)
I did not think Martin James Bartlett’s debut album for Warner Classics (6/19) showed him in the best possible light....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022
'Debussy Orchestrated'
For their latest album, Pascal Rophé and his Loire orchestra turn to music by Debussy originally written for piano but...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 (Thielemann)
It would be idle to pretend that this latest addition to Sony’s Bruckner cycle with Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2022
BRUCKNER Symphony No 0 'die Nullte' (Poschner)
The earliest of Bruckner’s three symphonies in D minor, No 0 or Die Nullte was written shortly after the composer’s...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2022
ABRAHAMSEN Schnee (Storgårds)
There isn’t much in Hans Abrahamsen’s recent output that doesn’t owe its existence, in some form or other, to his...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022
JS BACH St Matthew Passion (Pichon)
Having recently tasted Pygmalion’s ravishing performances of two Bach cantatas for solo soprano with Sabine Devieilhe (Erato, 12/21), I sensed...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2022
Vintage Americana
I suspect that the six works featured here would be unlikely items in most selections of vintage Americana. All credit...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
Early Moderns: The (Very) First Viennese School
In their extensive booklet note as well as in the varied programme they’ve assembled, violinists Robert Mealy and Julie Andrijeski...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022
WALKER Five Piano Sonatas (Steven Beck)
The five piano sonatas of George Walker (1922-2018) reveal the trajectory of his creative evolution, as well as the kind...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2022
PRICE 'Uncovered, Vol 2'
Where has Florence Price been all our lives? Waiting for the world to open its ears and consciences to composers...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2022
GRIEG Violin Sonatas (Kaleb Chesnic)
Flautists will, I think, be rather excited by this disc. Transcriptions for flute of major works for violin is nothing...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
Ian Bostridge: Tormento d'amore
There are three stories being told here. The first is that, contrary to what people may think, the tenor was...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2022
STRADELLA Amare e fingere (De Carlo)
Amare e fingere was staged in Siena in May or June 1676 but might have been first performed in Rome...
Reviewed in issue 03/2022
ROSSINI L’occasione fa il ladro (Fogliani)
This is the second staging by the Rossini in Wildbad Festival of L’occasione fa il ladro, the richly freighted one-act...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2022
MONDONVILLE Titon Et l'Aurore (Christie)
Titon et l’Aurore was the third of Mondonville’s operas: first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1753, it was a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2022
HINDEMITH Sancta Susanna. Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'. Nusch-Nuschi-Tanze
The Mathis der Maler Symphony (1933 34) gets top billing here but it is the third recording of Hindemith’s still...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
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