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Andrew Clements

April 2025

  • Zimerman with violinist Maria Nowak, viola player Katarzyna Budnik and cellist Yuya Okamoto.

    Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos 2 and 3 album review – high-class chamber music with a star team player

  • Malcolm Martineau

    Ravel: Complete Songs album review – Martineau’s survey is full of treats

  • Sonya Bach , publicity image from Rubicon Classics

    Bartók: Piano Works album review – Sonya Bach guides us from romantic roots to expressionist power

  • Kristine Opolais and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons.

    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk album review – controversial opera’s drama is dulled

March 2025

  • Bertrand Chamayou.

    Ravel: Fragments album review – Chamayou’s piano dances and dazzles in a luminous birthday celebration

  • Pierre Boulez working with Quatuor Diotima in 2012.

    Boulez: Livre pour Quatuor album review – first complete recording illuminates its vertiginous contrasts

  • Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic.

    Mahler Symphony No 3 album review – slightly sub-par outing for ‘least hysterical’ work

  • Nicky Spence, tenor.

    Fauré: La Bonne Chanson and Other Songs album review – the ecstasy of unbuttoned love

  • Dunedin Consort/Butt review – A bog, but not standard as Fennessy’s new cantata premieres

  • Mozart: Serenades; Gran Partita review – bright tones and period-instrument agility

  • Organised Delirium: Piano Sonatas by Boulez, Shostakovich, Bartók and Eisler album review – coruscating and exceptional

  • Theatre of Voices review – lucid tonality, Italian poetry and a contemporary classic

February 2025

  • Francisco Coll.

    Francisco Coll: A Portrait album review – assured collection charts the rise of a compelling voice

  • Burst of creativity … pianist Saskia Giorgini and tenor Ian Bostridge.

    Twilight: Schumann Songs album review – treasures galore from vivid and sensitive Ian Bostridge

  • Vimbayi Kaziboni conducts Klangforum Wien and mezzo-soprano Barbara Kozelj at the Wigmore Hall on Sunday

    Klangforum Wien review – Vienna focus brings lucid and colour-filled Pierrot Lunaire

  • Best of British, and Finland … Nicholas Collon conducting the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

    Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius album review – thoughtful and acutely sensitive to tiniest nuances

  • Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág album review – Benjamin Appl’s wonderful tribute to extraordinary composer

  • Festen review – Turnage’s taut new opera grips, appals and moves

  • Argerich/Maisky/Ivanov review – legendary pianist brings her irrepressible brilliance to chamber music programme

  • John Field: Complete Nocturnes album review – Alice Sara Ott does pioneering composer proud

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