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JS BACH Violin Concertos (Leonidas Kavakos)
In the booklet notes, Leonidas Kavakos is clearly keen for us to know that he has experimented with playing on...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2024
CPE BACH 'Instrumental Theatre of Effects'
Emanuel Bach, second son of JS, was famous for his rhapsodising at the clavichord in his Hamburg home. As the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024
ANDRES The Blind Banister
Unsurprisingly perhaps, the inquisitive, explorative and dynamic approach one hears in Timo Andres’s piano-playing also comes through in his own...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
CHOPIN Études (Yunchan Lim)
Ever since Yunchan Lim became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn Gold Medal in June 2022, the piano grapevine...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2024
Velvet Brown. Tuba
The repertoire on Velvet Brown’s fourth recording for Crystal is of such absorbing interest and the playing of such high...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Bernard)
David Bernard and his dedicated amateur orchestra continue their recorded traversal of the standard orchestral repertoire with this set of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
ROSNER Orchestral Music Vol 4 (Palmer)
Arnold Rosner’s extraordinary Requiem (A/20) was my Critics’ Choice for 2020, the third volume of his orchestral works (5/19) my...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024
KAYE Time is the Sea We Swim In
The compositional catalogue of New York-resident Debra Kaye runs to around 70 works, ranging from orchestral and instrumental works to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024
BEACH; CORIGLIANO Violin Sonatas (Usha Kapoor)
The coupling is one of contrasts, much as an album of Richard Strauss and Stravinsky would present. While it’s perfectly...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2024
Michael Spyres: In The Shadows
We’ve got used to the fact that Michael Spyres albums take us on unexpected journeys, often with unexpected diversions on...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2024
WAGNER Parsifal (Jordan)
Stage+ hosts the film of this Russian-prison Parsifal, directed (via Zoom) by Kirill Serebrennikov in Vienna in 2021. Anyone discomfited...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024
SAINT-SAËNS Samson et Delila (Pappano)
Richard Jones’s production of Samson et Dalila polarised opinion when it opened at Covent Garden in 2022. I didn’t see...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024
LULLY Atys (Rousset)
It was with Atys, staged and recorded in 1987 by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants to mark the tercentenary...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
HANDEL Alcina (Minkowski)
Alcina was first staged on April 16, 1735, at John Rich’s new theatre at Covent Garden, where it ran for...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
DONIZETTI Chiara e Serafina (Quatrini)
As revivals of forgotten operas go this is a gem: a clever staging, finely sung, of an opera that owes...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2024
Veronique Gens: Paysage
French vocal music could not have a finer ambassador’ was how I closed my citation for our Artist of the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
New Millennium
Between 2007 and 2022 Andrew Nethsingha raised the already high standard of the Chapel Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
Masters of Imitation
I’ll get straight to the point and say that this new release from The Sixteen, celebrating the Renaissance tradition of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024
Lumen Christi: A Sequence of Music for the Easter Vigil
Here’s the second ‘sequence’ of liturgical music recorded by Westminster Cathedral Choir in the faraway surroundings of Buckfast Abbey, whose...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024
VICTORIA Tenebrae Responsories (Hollingworth)
Robert Hollingworth’s motto for this disc is the question he poses in his introduction: ‘How can so little mean so...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2024
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