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BEETHOVEN Piano Trio Op 70 No 2. Symphony No 2 (Beethoven Trio Bonn)
The second of Beethoven’s Op 70 pair is rather the poor relation among the numbered piano trios, its radiance effaced...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2020
ARTYOMOV Album XI
Vyacheslav Artyomov turned 80 this year. His reputation may rest significantly on large-scale orchestral works, such as the Requiem and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
Camille Thomas: Voice of Hope
Fazıl Say describes his 2017 Cello Concerto as an artistic response to the terror attacks in Paris and Istanbul, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
Music of the Spheres
Marketing in overdrive and a concept that has misfired, but don’t let that stop you listening to these fresh and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020
Sarah Willis: Mozart y Mambo
Sarah Willis is hardly the first to put a Cuban spin on classical works. But where, say, the Klazz Brothers’...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
Lisa Batiashvili: City Lights
The idea for this recording came out of a casual conversation between fellow Georgians Lisa Batiashvili and Nikoloz Rachveli about...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
L’Heure Bleue; Hildegard, Hersant, Hartmann, Shostakovich
If I’ve unpacked it right, there are two converging strands to this project: the atmosphere of ‘that fleeting moment between...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020
VIEUXTEMPS Works for Violin & Orchestra (Reto Kuppel)
Given that there’s generally a reason why flashy early 19th-century miniatures penned by their era’s virtuoso soloists haven’t made it...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2020
VASKS Distant Light. Piano Quartet. Summer Dances (Lintu)
Distant Light is surely the most-recorded violin concerto by a living composer, with almost enough versions listed on the streaming...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4. LESHNOFF Double Concerto (Honeck)
In a brief but perspicacious essay on the Tchaikovsky symphonies, Hans Keller argues that the composer’s ‘individual contribution to the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
STRAUSS Rosenkavalier Suite. Tod und Verklärung. Macbeth (Shui)
Following his well-regarded series of Debussy recordings for BIS, Lan Shui’s latest release finds the Hangzhou-born conductor equally at home...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020
STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra. Don Juan. Till Eulenspiegel
Here’s a handsome Straussian showcase from Krzysztof Urbański and the rebranded NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester – although these live recordings were...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2020
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 (Karabits)
It’s a while since someone had the bright idea of bagging a multi-maestro Shostakovich symphony cycle from Mikhail Pletnev’s Russian...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2020
SAWYERS Symphony No 4. Hommage to Kandinsky (Woods)
Like all great symphonists, Philip Sawyers approaches symphonic form from a different direction in each work. Nos 1 (2004; 2/11)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Vänskä)
I might have predicted that this of all the Mahler symphonies would chime with Osmo Vänskä’s very particular gifts as...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2020
Beethoven's World: Salieri, Hummel, Vorisek
‘Beethoven’s World’ proclaims the jewel case of an entertaining, offbeat programme no one could have predicted. Active in and around...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2020
GROVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
Although both symphonies by the ethnomusicologist, broadcaster and composer Eivind Groven (1901-77) have been recorded before, this is the first...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020
GLASS; STRAVINSKY Violin Concertos (David Nebel)
There’s an urgency to David Nebel’s performance of Stravinsky’s Concerto I’m not sure I’ve heard in this work before, even...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
FRANCK Le Chasseur maudit. Psyche. Les Eolides
While recordings of Franck’s Symphony in D minor are legion, complete versions of his extended tone poem Psyché, completed one...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020
FIBICH Symphony No 3 (Štilec)
This fifth release in Naxos’s series devoted to Zdeněk Fibich’s orchestral music brings us the composer’s Third Symphony, his last...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020
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