By Norman Lebrecht on January 27, 2023
With Maria Milstein and the Phion Orchestra, the outcome is a real interpretation, not something manufactured around a record label’s conference table.
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By Norman Lebrecht on January 20, 2023
Some of today’s smaller voices for violin have much to say, if only we can find the esoteric releases and spare the time to listen.
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By Norman Lebrecht on January 13, 2023
Clarinetist supreme Anthony McGill's playing is immaculate on two new releases of music by Brahms and American composers.
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By Norman Lebrecht on January 6, 2023
When I was growing up, great conductors vied to perform César Franck’s D minor Symphony; nowadays, his scores gather dust.
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By Norman Lebrecht on December 30, 2022
The intense performances of Shostakovich's chamber symphonies on this album took place in a Saarbrücken studio amid full COVID precautions.
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By Norman Lebrecht on December 23, 2022
This album by Bavarian Radio covers three young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin and a fourth dancing away on the fringes.
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By Norman Lebrecht on December 16, 2022
This release is as convincing an introduction to Arnold’s music as can be found, searingly played by the BBC Philharmonic with Rumon Gamba at the helm.
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By Norman Lebrecht on December 9, 2022
What Brahms’s gentle 1888 sonata is doing in the middle of this Janáček-Bartók Slav-Baltic sandwich album is frankly unfathomable.
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By Norman Lebrecht on December 2, 2022
No-one knew what to expect of 2022, and while musical gems were to be savoured, Weinberg's symphonies emerges as a narrow winner.
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By Norman Lebrecht on November 25, 2022
Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov's Requiem, written in the memory of his late wife, is captured in a live recording by the Munich Radio Orchestra.
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