Book review - A Light in the Darkness: The Life and Music of Joaquín Rodrigo (Javier Suárez-Pajares and Walter Aaron Clark)
A Light in the Darkness is a much-needed addition to the limited literature on this composer in...
Benjamin Grosvenor’s selection, simply entitled ‘Dances’, is lovingly planned rather than random. Ranging from Bach to Morton Gould, there are...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014
‘Canticles from St Paul’s’ features five settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, with music from the service of Matins...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 09/2014
With French a cappella repertory already disappearingly small, that this disc limits its programme to music written for upper voices...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
This is the fourth double-CD of this ambitious project, of which each instalment explores the contents of one of a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2014
The 1783 trip to Italy of the musician and writer JF Reichardt had far-reaching implications. He returned to his native...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
The 1783 trip to Italy of the musician and writer JF Reichardt had far-reaching implications. He returned to his native...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
Every time Mike Westbrook records Glad Day – his much loved settings of William Blake for two solo voices, choir...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014
Some works don’t define their era but merely recall it. So listeners would have to be rather fascinated by the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014
Though Schubert’s great song-cycle has had its day with period instruments, this recording has some differences that allow it to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014
Moses Pergament (1893-1977) has been described as ‘one of the best-kept secrets of Swedish music’, although he was born in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014
A Light in the Darkness is a much-needed addition to the limited literature on this composer in...
This unusual network player has ‘lifestyle’ appeal, but packs serious audio and computer technology...
One of McVeigh’s great strengths is his forensic examination of the infrastructure of Edwardian...
‘It’s a sizeable sum to lay out at one shot, but given the quality – and quantity – of what’s on...
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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