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GUERAU Complete Works for Guitar

Recorded between 2010 and 2013, the three discs that comprise this box-set open up for the listener a strange, intricate...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2014

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5

Let’s hope that this debut recording by the prize-winning Hungarian cellist Ditta Rohmann is the first of a two-disc set....

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2014

Magdalena Kožená: Prayer

Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená believes it is ‘impossible to draw a line between the religious and the personal’. It’s a philosophy...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014

Marie et Marion: Motets and Chansons from 13th-century France

Twenty years ago, Anonymous 4 had the absurd courage to issue a disc entirely confined to motets in the 13th-century...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2014

The Golden Age of Danish Partsongs

Two discs here drawn from the same rich fund of Danish ‘folk-like’ songs for amateur consumption and with some overlap...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2014

Destino Mexicano

Having touched briefly on New World repertoire in their previous release ‘Ay Portugal’ (ABC Classics), Melbourne-based ensemble La Compañia go...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014

Conversazioni II: Duelling Cantatas

Sounds Baroque follow their debut album (10/11) with another engaging snapshot of the Arcadian Academy’s Sunday afternoon ‘conversations’, magnets for...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2014

Arise, my muse

It says a lot about Iestyn Davies’s musical instincts that his second Wigmore Hall Live disc is less a solo...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014

TULVE Arboles Lloran Por Lluvia

Estonia continues to produce a wealth of composers out of all proportion to its size and population, and Helena Tulve...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014

TAVENER Ikon of Light

Sometime back in the mid-1980s I was sent a review copy of the original LP recording on which all these...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2014

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