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Brief notes

Brief notes This month’s short selection holds everything from Langgaard to Lang Lang Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 etc Lauma Skride (piano) et al MDG 9012216 Lauma Skride gives a poetic reading of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto – although the balance in the orchestra-piano dialogue in the second movement is misjudged. It’s surrounded by an […]

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World reviews

World Jon Lusk takes a trip in sounds ancient and modern from Australia to Nigeria November round-up We last met Melbourne’s experimental group Bush Gothic in November 2016, and now their third album Beyond The Pale finds them moving outside their early inspiration of traditional bush ballads into more contemporary poems. These address post-penal Australian […]

Instrumental reviews

Instrumental JS Bach 6 Solo Cello Suites (arr. Serino) Giuliano Carmignola (violin) Arcana A533 138:43 mins (2 discs) When Rachel Podger’s inspirational Channel Classics recording of Bach’s cello suites appeared back in July 2019, there were those for whom the cello’s soundworld and physical proclivities were so deeply ingrained that the necessary adjustments to pitch […]

Chamber reviews

Chamber Bridge • Britten • Debussy • Janáček Bridge: Cello Sonata; Britten: Cello Sonata; Debussy: Cello Sonata; Janáček: Pohádka Truls Mørk (cello), Håvard Gimse (piano) Alpha Classics ALPHA560 71:01 mins Four of the 20th century’s greatest works for cello and piano: three of them famously recorded back in the 1960s by Rostropovich and Britten – […]

Sound Bites

Sound Bites Grand cru tenor Laurence Kilsby enjoyed a bubbly moment in early September as he was named as the winner of the Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition. The 24-year-old British tenor is no stranger to competition success, although he was a few inches shorter the last time he hit the headlines: in 2009, he […]

Rewind

REWIND: Great artists talk about their past recordings This month: Eugene Drucker Violinist, Emerson String Quartet Our finest moment Beethoven String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130 – Cavatina Emerson String Quartet DG 449 5052 (1996) We had a slight disagreement the day we recorded this. I wanted to begin with one […]

Studio Secrets

Studio Secrets We reveal who’s recording what and where… Linn Records had recordings at Perth Concert Hall and Glyndebourne in September. The latter was Smyth’s opera The Wreckers, conducted by Robin Ticciati, while in Scotland the Dunedin Consort recorded motets by CPE Bach and Mozart’s Mass in C minor. Both recordings are scheduled for release […]

Meet the composer: Joanna Marsh

Meet the composer Joanna Marsh A move to Dubai in 2007 saw British-born Joanna Marsh found both the Dubai Opera Festival Chorus and ChoirFest Middle East, while establishing herself as a much-admired composer of choral music and song. The United Strings of Europe and Gandini Juggling premiere her Another Eden at Kings Place on 28 […]