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Abrahamsen: Schnee review
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The dryly factual subtitle of Hans Abrahamsen’s Schnee, “10 canons for nine instruments”, hardly hints at the magical sonorities and glittering reflections explored in this 55-minute work, which was composed between 2...
Brahms: Complete Songs Vol 1 – Opp 32, 43, 86 en 105 resensie
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Over the last decade and more, no Lieder recitals have given me more intense pleasure than those by the tenor Christoph Prégardien. Though he is now in his mid 60s, and his voice has inevitably lost some of its former...
Brahms: Klavierkonserte nr 1 & 2 resensie
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“Met die huidige opname het ons probeer om die werke te herskep en te herstel, om die musiek skoon te maak en te ontgif ”, skryf András Schiff in die voernotas vir sy nuwe Brahms-skyf. 'Om dit te bevry van die las van die ...
Bruckner: Symphonies Nos 1 en 5, etc review
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Unless Andris Nelsons is intending to record “Die Nullte” (the D minor symphony Bruckner composed in 1869 between the first and second numbered works), this will be the final instalment in his cycle with the Leipzig o...
Chopin: Complete Nocturnes review
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Chopin composed 21 nocturnes, 18 of which were published during his lifetime. They span almost his entire creative career – the earliest were written in the late 1820s, when the composer was still in his teens, the la...
Coll: Violin Concerto; Mural, etc review
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The first disc devoted exclusively to orchestral music by Francisco Coll traces a neat trajectory through his development over the last decade and a half. The earliest piece here is Coll’s opus 1, Aqua Cinerea, compos...
Czernowin: Heart Chamber review
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Though her works are still hardly known in Britain, Chaya Czernowin is a major, distinctive voice in new music on both sides of the Atlantic. Heart Chamber, first performed in Berlin in November 2019, is her fourth op...
John Cage: Number Pieces review
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Tussen 1987 en 1992, the final years of his life, John Cage composed some 40 works that he designated only by numbers, indicating the number of performers needed to realise them. They range from solos to orchestral ...
Ligeti: Die 18 Études review
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The studies that György Ligeti composed in the last two decades of his life are the most important additions to the solo-piano repertoire in the last half-century. On their own terms, die 18 pieces the composer comple...
Liza Lim: Singing in Tongues review
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The first three of Liza Lim’s five operas to date are represented in this deeply impressive collection, together with her 2005 song-cycle for soprano and 15 instruments, Mother Tongue. Only one scene from the 2000 “ri...
Mahler/Cooke: Symphony No 10 resensie
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Over the last 60 years there have been at least seven completions of the symphony that Gustav Mahler left unfinished at his death in 1911. But it’s the “performing version” of the 10th by Deryck Cooke, which he worked...
Martha Argerich review
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Hard to believe, maar aan 5 June Martha Argerich turned 80. Her birthday has been celebrated by several of the labels for which she has recorded over seven decades, with lavish reissues of her classic discs, many of the...
Martinů: Les Fresques, The Parables, Estampes review
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Bohuslav Martinů spent much of the last decade of his life commuting across the Atlantic, his teaching in the US interrupted with spells back in Europe, before he eventually settled first in Italy and then in Switzerl...
Nielsen: Flute and Clarinet Concertos review
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In 1921, Carl Nielsen heard the Copenhagen Wind Quintet for the first time and was bowled over by the sheer musicality of their playing. The following year he composed a wind quintet for the group, which ends with a s...
On DSCH: Shostakovich and Stevenson/Igor Levit
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Twee jaar gelede, Igor Levit devoted a recital at the Wigmore Hall to Ronald Stevenson’s massive Passacaglia on DSCH. It was an extraordinary, unforgettable performance of one of the most singular works in the 20th-centu...
Penderecki: Complete Quartets review
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Krzysztof Penderecki’s four numbered string quartets do not trace the course of his creative development anything like as faithfully as, sê, the six quartets of Bartók or the five of Elliott Carter map the progress o...