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SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin

Wolfgang Holzmair’s 1999 recording of Die schöne Müllerin with Imogen Cooper has long been admired for its freshness and expressive...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2015

SAARIAHO Émilie Suite. Quatre Instants

The major item on this excellent new Ondine release is the suite for soprano and small orchestra (2011) from Kaija...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015

Songs and Duets by Henrik and Frederik Rung

‘Rung & Rung’ proclaims the cover of this Danacord issue, boldly if enigmatically. I confess I had never previously heard...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015

ROSSINI Petite Messe Solennelle

The New Chamber Singers is a choir of mostly English-speaking singers based in Rome. There are some two dozen voices...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2015

PENDERECKI A Sea of Dreams did Breathe on me

While this colourful orchestral song-cycle from 2010 has in many ways a close relative in the Symphony No 8, Songs...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2015

HÖLSZKY On the Other Side. Formicarium

Adriana Hölszky, born in Bucharest in 1953, was a pupil of S¸tefan Niculescu, the Romanian composer renowned for strips of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

HILDEGARD VON BINGEN Vox Cosmica

Hildegard of Bingen is now firmly enough established that she has almost achieved the Bach-like status according to which it...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2015

FAURÉ Requiem GOUNOD Ave verum

There is some peculiar Latin pronunciation to negotiate as well as disconcertingly brisk tempi – for Hervé Niquet In Paradisum...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2015

ELGAR King Olaf. The Banner of St George

This recording of Elgar’s King Olaf on Chandos comes no less than 28 years after the first (conducted by Vernon...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2015

GOUNOD Requiem DVOŘÁK Mass

The Berlin Radio Choir join together with members of the excellent Polyphonia Ensemble in Risto Joost’s moving but not extrovert...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2015

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