Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
The missing dimension
Warning: contains passages of symphonic transcendence
Not so easy listening
Janacek, Brahms, Bartok: Violin sonatas (Alpha-Classics/Outhere)
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
Our ultimate moment
Outstanding art for troubled times
Inquest into the death of ENO
The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality
Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
Playing that pulls no punches
Kholodenko is in the elite of classical pianists
Defiantly playful
A composer worth discovering and rediscovering
Sibelius: Symphonies 3&5 (Alpha-Classics)
There’s a new burst of steam from the sauna
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