Review: Glass: Cocteau Trilogy (Katia & Marielle Labèque)
Glass and Cocteau find thrillingly eloquent champions in the Labèque sisters.
Michael Quinn is a former theatre director and BBC Radio Drama producer who writes about classical music, opera and theatre. A former Deputy Editor of Gramophone, he is obituaries editor for The Stage, booklet editor for SOMM Recordings, and programming consultant to Northern Ireland’s newest arts centre, The Portico of Ards.
Glass and Cocteau find thrillingly eloquent champions in the Labèque sisters.
Muscular and mesmerising playing makes for a rewardingly satisfying listen.
Schumann sings on superbly employed period instruments.
Revealing interviews with classical music’s great and good.
Sonatas for our uncertain times superbly played and recorded.
Bartók but not as you know him: Aimard re-boots the Piano Concertos.
Levit’s intense, intimate and involving delve into fantasy is compelling.
A fine, superbly performed farewell to Kaija Saariaho.
Marsalis enters The Jungle to claim Gershwin and Bernstein’s crown.
Encores take centre-stage in Piers Lane’s entertaining recital.
The final frontier: classic sci-fi filtered through cutting-edge electronica.
A bracing Turandot with Alfano’s extended completion for the first time on disc.
A fine, time-collapsing debut on disc by the Ruisi Quartet.