Review: Harry Partch: Sonata Dementia – Music of Harry Partch, Vol. 3
What would music sound like if we started all over again?
October 23, 2019
Review: Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann (Isata Kanneh-Mason)
Further signs Frau Schumann is getting her due at last.
October 23, 2019
Review: Other Voices (Lamorna Nightingale, Jane Sheldon)
New Australian works dazzle with understated brilliance.
October 23, 2019
Review: The Jupiter Project (David Owen Norris)
Downsizing Amadeus – portable Mozart gives a fascinating glimpse of history.
October 23, 2019
Review: Debussy: Nocturnes (Singapore SO/Lan Shui)
Lan Shui proves you don’t have to be French to sound Gallic.
October 22, 2019
Review: Weinberg: Symphonies No 2 and No 21 (Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla)
Two personal statements from a rediscovered symphonist.
October 18, 2019
Review: Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 6 (Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Bernhard Forck)
German band brings pathos and panache to grand concertos.
October 18, 2019
Review: Kabalevsky: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Malmö SO/Darrell Ang)
Two colourful Soviet symphonies strut their stuff.
October 18, 2019
Review: Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works (Kirill Gerstein, Czech Philharmonic/Semyon Bychkov)
Semyon Bychkov’s Czech band looks East and West.
October 18, 2019
Review: Saint-Saëns: Ascanio (Guillaume Tourniaire)
In Ascanio, Saint-Saëns’ greatest miss gets its recorded due at last.
October 18, 2019
Review: Von Einem: Der Prozess (ORF Vienna RSO/HK Gruber)
Von Einem’s darkly comical take on Kafka resurfaces at last.
October 18, 2019
Review: Ruders: The Thirteenth Child (Santa Fe Opera/Benjamin Shwartz, David Starobin)
Danish master’s latest has curiously little magic in it.
October 7, 2019
Review: Kats-Chernin: The Little Green Road to Fairyland (Katie Noonan, Camerata)
Katie Noonan leads us down Kats-Chernin’s green road.
October 7, 2019