OK, this is as complex as it gets: Ferneyhough's La Terre est un Homme. It seems like a nightmare trying to imagine the rehearsals for the players, struggling to get the notes right and...

This is not yet another recording of the Four Seasons. More importantly, this is not your standard historically informed account. This is fresh, insightful, well-thought-out, introspective music-making of the highest order.Of course, Rachel Podger...

The 16 symphonies of Allan Pettersson have often been described as music of pain, anguish, and sadness. They are unlike those of any other 20th-century composer: think of a Shostakovich slow movement (with all...

The expectations run high when there is a new Suzuki release with his Bach Collegium Japan. It is really hard to find a weak performance among their recorded output. Even Suzuki's solo recitals (himself...

Title: Phantom Thread Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Released: 2018 Film Review: Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson at his most emotional. Within minutes of witnessing Daniel Day-Lewis’ acting in the Phantom Thread you know you’re in for a treat. This...

This has been an anticipated release. Perahia recording two of the most famous Beethoven piano sonatas. Do we need another recording of the Moonlight and the Hammerklavier I hear you ask. When it comes...

Title: The Square Director: Ruben Östlund Released: 2017 The Square is much better than the average cinemagoer wants you to believe. A lot has been already written about this tour de force of a film. For this reason,...

This is a major new addition. Codebreaker is a 55-minute piece for choir, orchestra and soprano, composed by British composer James McCarthy and premiered only a few years ago.It is difficult to distinguish the...

Nimrod Borenstein’s Violin Concerto is a substantial work cast in four movements. It resembles the style of Prokofiev, Barber, Glass and -dare I say- Szymanowski, but still has a voice of its own.The outer...

It’s not easy to blur the line between dreams and illusions, but Ali Smith succeeds effortlessly. "It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times." So begins Smith's novel and we...