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9 days ago

Beethoven & Brahms: Violin Concertos album review – as supple and coherent as ever as the ACO celebrates 50 ⊕⊕

Tognetti/Australian Chamber Orchestra
(ABC Classic)
Under Richard Tognetti the ACO has established itself as world-class and this 50th anniversary live recording of these two great concertos are a wond…

10 days ago

Hania Rani: Non Fiction review – atmospheric and absorbing storytelling by Polish composer

Barbican Hall, London
From ghost-story minimalism to wartime memory, Rani’s two new works, premiered here, shimmer with imagination, although issues of balance diminished the piano concerto

In a crow…

16 days ago

Brahms: Symphony No 1, Tragic Overture album review – Petrenko and the Berliners give Brahms organic momentum

(Berliner Philharmoniker)
Brahms’s Tragic Overture leaps to life while there is much interest in a careful reading of the composer’s First Symphony in this new recording from the Berlin Philharmonic w…

4 months ago

The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals album review – a joyful reminder of the richness of Claudio Arrau

Claudio Arrau
(First Hand Records)
Three recitals given by the Chilean pianist in the 70s and 80s are a feast of lucid and emphatic playing that hasn’t dated in the slightest

Those of us who were lucky …

‘A privilege and a great pleasure’: inside the 5,000-item Stephen Sondheim collection

A treasure trove of manuscripts, notebooks and recordings from the theatre legend has been acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington DC

Mark Horowitz had done his homework before Stephen Sondh…

5 months ago

Majestic, rigorous and sheer fun: the best of Alfred Brendel’s recordings

As the musical world mourns the celebrated pianist, we assess his wide recording legacy and pick the 12 best, from Russian rarities to quickfire Beethoven

In the two decades before he retired from con…

9 months ago

Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág album review – Benjamin Appl’s wonderful tribute to extraordinary composer

Benjamin Appl/Kurtág/Aimard/ Baillieu
(Alpha)

Works by Schubert and Brahms are interwoven with 13 of composer’s own songs in this beautifully realised collection

Benjamin Appl has worked regularly with …

10 months ago

Samson Tsoy: Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni, Reger review – the pianist’s subtle, searching debut

(Linn)
Playing Brahms’s transcriptions of Bach and Handel, then Reger and Busoni takes on Brahms, Tsoy contemplates creativity across centuries in this fine recital

Elegantly constructed and intimate, …

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