Recordings

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Liya Petrova – Bulgarian-born, Paris-based, Brussels/Berlin/Lausanne trained (her teachers including Augustin Duman, Antje Weithaas and Renaud Capuçon) – was joint-winner of the 2016 Carl Nielsen Competition in Odense. Her 2018...
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You could be forgiven for wondering if we really need yet another Elgar Cello Concerto featuring Jacqueline du Pré and John Barbirolli, given there is the classic studio version (Warner...
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Thomas Adès is certainly multi-talented having forged a high-profile career as probably the finest English composer since Harrison Birtwistle, conductor and pianist, so one can only hope that this recital...
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This Sony CD from the Notos Quartett confirms the German chamber group as a premiere-league ensemble. They have been together for 14 years and have an earlier CD (including the...
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Like so much of the music Schoenberg composed after he abandoned tonality the Violin Concerto isn’t particularly well-known, or – if truth be told – liked, probably because the thought...
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This is only the second recording of Arvo Pärt’s Miserere in thirty years and benefits from a brighter ambience than the first made by the Hilliard Ensemble (ECM) in 1990. This release...
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Sabine Weyer has already established herself as one of the most enterprising pianists of the younger generation. This release for Ars Produktion following on from its predecessors (above all a...
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Lang Lang has had more than his fair share of lockdown. As well as the past twelve months of Covid, he was also afflicted by tendonitis in 2017, which put...
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The music of Mieczysław Weinberg, or Moisey Vainberg as we used to call him, has lately emerged from the shadows. Was he a major independent voice or a mere acolyte, a Shostakovich...
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The coming centenary of Robert Simpson’s birth (March 2nd) will hopefully see releases of a handful of works not yet recorded, but archival issues are always welcome when as significant...
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