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Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
Performances on disc remain relatively rare, and I wish I could greet this new recording of Bruckner’s Mass No 3...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2014
Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang show how to interpret Brahms’s intentions, their expression precisely tailored to the expressive curves clearly...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2014
Of all the things that could have emerged from last year’s Dowland anniversary, perhaps for many the most devoutly to...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
William Mundy’s Vox Patris caelestis is probably his most famous piece (I reviewed The Sixteen’s most recent account in April),...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2014
Lirone player Erin Headley (co-founder of Tragicomedia) now has her own group, Atalante, who here present the third volume of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014
This follows the pattern of Sabine Devieilhe’s recital ‘Le grand théâtre de l’amour’ (Erato, 2/14) by fashioning a sequence of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014
This is an original and inventive anthology of songs by Spanish composers, but avoiding the Castilian language, presenting instead works...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2014
A master miniaturist, Peter Warlock is at his best in the songs – both solo and choral – that make...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2014
Anyone familiar with the old Philips recording (6/55) of Stravinsky conducting his Oedipus rex, and Jean Cocteau summoning the audience...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2014
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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