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Richard Hanlon

Kuwabara Sounded Voice Kairos 0022202KAI

Kuwabara: Sounded Voice, Voiced Sound (Kairos)

Yu Kuwabara’s frequently beautiful work projects both delicacy and vigour, and harnesses ancient and modern influences to thrilling effect [RHa]

Aho: Guitar Concerto & Horn Quintet (BIS)

A worthy addition to BIS’s monumental Aho edition [RHa]

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Lou: Near Distant (Kairos)

Three and a half hours of challenging new music, most of which deserves further investigation [RH]

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Linde: Chamber Works for piano and for piano trio (dB Productions)

Further evidence that Linde’s untimely passing deprived us of a major talent [RHa]

Corrado Ensemble Intercontemporain Kairos KAI0022004

Corrado: Works for Ensemble (Kairos)

Agreeable new music from Italy which flows, floats and flourishes [RHa]

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Maguire: Dystophilia (Neuma Records)

A pair of apocalyptic electroacoustic realisations; intriguing in their conception but not for listeners of a nervous disposition [RHa]

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Glojnarić: Pure Bliss (Kairos)

Yet more contemporeana that’s been somehow touched by the pop world – fascinating and unclassifiable [RHa]

Hellstenius Public Behaviour BIS 2665 SACD

Hellstenius: Public Behaviour (BIS)

Two riveting and provocative vocal works which muse upon modes of communication in modern life. Virtuosic and entertaining [RHa]

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Torvund: A Walk into the Future (Aurora)

Unusual orchestral fare: the final pair of pieces convince more than the first two [Rha]

Cikada Live – Huddersfield / Donaueschingen (LAWO Classics)

Klaus Lang’s stately Parthenon is the must-hear item here [RHa]

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A Room of Her Own (Chandos)

A handful of unfailingly accomplished, virtually unknown trios, in handsome performances and ideal sound [RHa]

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Devenish & James: Alluvial Gold (Huddersfield Contemporary Records)

Immersive, colourful, ecologically compelling fare [RHa]

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Smith: Dark Flower (Redshift)

The magnificent quintet which gives this exceptional release its title is a must; the couplings are hardly less compelling [RHa]

The Brodsky Album (IBS Classical)

A niche issue which disappoints on a number of levels [RHa]

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S Jones: Three Concertos (BMOP/sound)

A warm welcome to a trio of Samuel Jones’ finely wrought concertos [RHa]

Ruby Hughes (soprano): End of My Days (BIS)

An outstanding recital; elegantly conceived, ideally recorded and beautifully performed [RHa]

Cage: Music for Three, Music for One (CAvi-Music)

Cage’s ‘thing’ advocated by three superb musicians, in sympathetic sonics [RHa]

Bedford In the Voices of the Living NMC D272

Bedford: In the Voices of the Living (NMC)

Bedford’s music is adventurous, exciting, humane and quite devoid of blandness or the easy option. Terrific performances and sonics [RHa]

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Recharged by Nature – Contemporary Nordic Works (Alba)

Two magnificent, distinctively folk-tinged concertos are vividly brought to life [RHa]

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Ewa Jacobsson: Hearbaricum Fields (Lawo)

The audio for a pair of audio-visual projects, one distinctive, the other less so [RHa]

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Corradini: Canzonas & Sonatas (Brilliant Classics)

A splendid calling card for a largely forgotten Cremonese master [RHa]

Maderna Venetian Journal Bonolis Dynamic CDS8008

Maderna: Serenata per un satellite & other works (Dynamic)

An important Maderna monograph seems to fill some gaps in the catalogue. One for the specialist, however, rather than the general listener [RHa]

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Rakhi Singh (violin): Purnima (Cantaloupe)

Rakhi Singh’s exceptional playing and arranging skills in an exhilarating transatlantic contemporary violin recital [RHa]

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Kuusisto: Symphony (BIS)

Two remarkably cogent pieces, each composed by more than one hand [RHa]