The Ligeti Quartet perform a series of pieces by British composer Christian Mason, inspired by two very different traditions of...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2020
Playing an album by a Spanish pianist on ACT Music, you might immediately expect to hear some variety of flamenco...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: January/February/2022
Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
The collaboration between Alasdair Fraser, a US-based Scottish violinist and all-round fiddle music evangelist, and American cellist Natalie Haas is...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2014
Compared to many other regions, the amount of Middle Eastern music released in the West is very small. And most...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: December/2015
It's hard to say whether NMB (Novíssima Música Brasileira), meaning ‘Brand New Brazilian Music’, will ever have quite the same...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2015
Kenyan singer-songwriter Suzanna Owiyo has her third album released on a Scandinavian label and sponsored by a Norwegian arts foundation....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Apr/May/2011
The West African nation of Burkina Faso has 60 different ethnic groups; in a strong career that includes three albums...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2021
Thrace is a quartet of musicians formed around classical cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, a long-serving member of Pierre Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2016
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