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Ruby Hughes: End of my Days
Soprano Ruby Hughes’s previous album, ‘Echo’ (1/23), focused mainly on Baroque and contemporary repertoire, with occasional nods towards folk music....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
TIPPETT A Child of Our Time (Davis)
This is the first new recording of Tippett’s wartime masterpiece since Colin Davis’s LSO Live version of 2007 and it...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024
Schumann in English Vol 1
Just a few months after a fourth volume of ‘Schubert in English’ (12/23), Christopher Glynn’s initiative of recording lieder in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
PORPORA Music for the Venetian Ospedaletto
Plenty of eminent teachers and composers beyond Vivaldi had close links to the four Venetian ospedali grandi, the Pietà, Incurabili,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2024
MOZART; STRAUSS Lieder (Sabine Devieilhe)
Lieder recitals such as this are a reminder of what’s often missing in others: hallmarks include clean vocalism, unaffected treatment...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2024
Gershwin Rhapsody
Concert pianist meets cabaret star sounds like an idea conceived by an eager A&R executive in search of a fresh...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2024
ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius (McCreesh)
A culmination of his choral essays in symphony (The Black Knight), oratorio (The Light of Life) and dramatic cantata (King...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2024
BRUMEL Earthquake Mass (Schmelzer)
By my count this is the fifth complete recording of Brumel’s fabled 12-voice Earthquake Mass, so called because of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2024
BRIGGS Hail, gladdening light & other works
In July 2022 the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge travelled to Paris to record in the church of Saint-Eustache...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2024
JS BACH Mass in B Minor (McGegan)
I admire many recordings by Nicholas McGegan, particularly his volumes of Scarlatti cantatas with Arcadian Academy (Conifer, 6/97) and his...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2024
Passage secret: Bizet, Debussy, Faure, Ravel, Aubert
Ludmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle are a formidably well-equipped duo whose acquaintance I first made back in 2017 with their...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024
From Handel’s Home: The Keyboards of Handel Hendrix House (Julian Perkins)
When the Handel (now Handel Hendrix) House opened in 2001, it could make use of only the top floors of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024
YSAŸE Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Sergey Khachatryan)
The brilliant Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan treats us to yet another superb set of the Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas, vibrant, forceful,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2024
WAGNER 'Famous Opera Scenes' (Nikolai Lugansky)
Listen to Josef Hofmann’s 1923 recording of Louis Brassin’s transcription of Wagner’s Magic Fire Music and you’ll hear one of...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2024
SORABJI Toccata Terza (Abel Sánchez-Aguilera)
Composed in 1955, the manuscript of Sorabji’s two-hour-plus Toccata terza had been missing for decades when it was rediscovered in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024
RAVEL Complete Works For Solo Piano Vol 1 (Vincent Larderet)
Here is the first of four planned discs devoted to Ravel’s piano works that promises to be painstakingly comprehensive, with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024
RACHMANINOV Piano Duos (Babayan; Trifonov)
This album of Rachmaninov’s two-piano music offers a winning mix of limitless pianism, deep knowledge and visionary boldness. Add to...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2024
Debussy and Ravel for Two
A quick glance at the repertoire above and it seems to be a nice programme of well-known piano pieces by...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024
CHOPIN Variations in B-Flat Major. Sonata in B-Flat Minor (Aleksandra Swigut)
Keeping track of the Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina’s ‘The Real Chopin’ period-instrument releases can be daunting, given the sheer volume...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024
JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Franz Halász)
Fans of German guitarist Franz Halász’s take on Bach’s so-called Lute Suites (9/19) and his earlier recording of the three...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2024
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