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Sol Gabetta: The Chopin Album

The performance of the Sonata is on a large scale, with generous, full tone and a vivid, resonant recording. Gabetta...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 1 & 14

Audite’s recording is close if not claustrophobic, close enough to differentiate the character of the four Italian instruments as well...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015

Music of the Realm: Tudor Music for Men's Voices

There’s a very particular sound to this recording and it’s one you can trace partially back to Delphian’s 2009 disc...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015

Italia

South-West German Radio’s ‘country’ series continues with a varied selection of late 19th- and 20th-century Italian choral music. Given the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2015

English Hymn Anthems

I suppose there must be choirs of equal merit to King’s College but none has the unassailable advantage of making...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015

Bror Magnus Tødenes: Remembering Jussi

This first recital by a handsome young artist reclaimed from rock‘n’roll by crusading voice teachers will already be a hit...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2015

SCHUBERT Die Schöne Müllerin

Now in his mid-thirties, Pavol Breslik has made his name primarily as a Mozart and Donizetti tenor. On this showing...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015

ROSSINI Petite Messe Solennelle

There is a theory currently doing the rounds that the original 1863 64 version of Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle for...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2015

LUTZ Stabat Mater

Bruckner, Poulenc, Villette, Elgar, Perotin, Mendelssohn: none of these composers features on this recording but all are present in the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2015

LALANDE Leçons De Ténèbres

The Lessons for Tenebrae by Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726) are performed less frequently than those by François Couperin and Charpentier....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015

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