Album Review

John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox (Alpha)

Among his best work

Artillery Row
Nico Muhly: Stranger (AVIE)

This new album of three works offers quiet empathy more than overwhelming emotion

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)

Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trio and Sextets (Hyperion)

Ludwig van Beethoven’s former secretary and pupil was no forgettable curiosity

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)

VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Hans Winterberg: orchestral works (Capriccio)

The lost sounds of a German Jewish composer

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)

This unfamiliar collection is the most enjoyable piano album of the year so far

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Allan Pettersson: Barefoot songs (BIS)

Sweden scorned the composer who could have been its greatest

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Gustav Mahler: 4th symphony (Pentatone)

A new recording of Mahler’s smallest symphony is “indispensable” to connoisseurs of his music

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British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)

A prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music to enjoy on Easter Sunday

Lebrecht's Album of the Week