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Dominic Hartley
Steiger: String quartets (Kairos)
Political music that turns its gaze inward [DHa]
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 30, 31 and 32 (Decca)
Mitsuko Uchida revisits late Beethoven to wonderful effect. [DHa]
Sweet Chance: music for harp, flute & voice (Convivium Records)
An ingeniously constructed recital [DHa]
Music at World’s End (SUNY Press)
A brilliantly written story of exile and influence [DHa]
Beethoven: Variations for piano (Harmonia Mundi)
The thoughtful completion of Cédric Tiberghien’s Beethoven Variations project [DHa]
Rituals: Ives, Hahn, Bolcom (Acis)
A thoughtfully constructed, beautifully performed song recital [DHa]
Beethoven: Late Piano Sonatas (BIS)
Enthralling late Beethoven from Paul Wee [DHa]
Halévy: La Juive (Naxos)
Halévy’s neglected colossus arrives on Blu-ray with fine singing, but in a somewhat muddled staging [DHa]
Glass: Hourglass (Naïve)
Revelatory Philip Glass from Simone Dinnerstein [DHa]
Peripheral Visions — Australian Clarinet Trios (Heritage)
Six Australian voices, one unusual trio: a surprising and energising disc [DHa]
Mozart: Don Giovanni (C Major)
A fitfully interesting, ultimately disappointing Don Giovanni from Barrie Kosky [DHa]
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 (Orchid Classics)
Caroline Shaw and Beethoven 3 bring Jonathan Biss’s ‘Beethoven /5’ project to a superb close [DHa]
Late Romantic Music for Violin and Piano (Et’cetera)
A delightful recital, beautifully planned and brilliantly played [DHa]
Feldman: For Bunita Marcus, Palais de Mari (True Blanking)
Compelling live performances of Feldman piano works by a doyen of the field [DHa]
Elgar: From the Archives, Vol 3 (SOMM Ariadne)
Compelling live Elgar from Sir Adrian Boult in SOMM’s essential archive series [DHa]
Bellini: (Oxford University Press)
Powered by the latest scholarship, a readable and illuminating overview of the career of Vincenzo Bellini [DHa]
JL Adams: Horizon (ABC Classics)
John Luther Adams continues to amaze in his first work since his move to Australia [DHa]
Symbiosis – Tribute to Bill Evans (Pentatone)
An ambitious and rewarding tribute to a jazz legend. [DHa]
Lang: geschrieben in wasser (Another Timbre)
Varied and compelling chamber works [DHa]
Frey: Clarinet Quintet (Another Timbre)
A new chamber work of great beauty [DHa]
Dodgson: Turn Ye to Me (SOMM Recordings)
A wonderful demonstration of the craft of the song composer from Stephen Dodgson [DHa]
McCormack: Chamber music (Kairos)
Unignorable instrumental works from a leading composer [DHa]
Stravinsky: Muses (Channel Classics)
Camerata Salzburg breathe life into neoclassical Stravinsky [DHa]
Garro: Choral Music (Hyperion)
Cupertinos capture our attention in excellent performances of the music of a neglected composer [DHa]
