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BRITTEN 3 String Quartets

One of the most strikingly understated ways to chart the progress of Britten as a composer is to put the...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2013

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas

Recorded in the recital hall of the Liszt birthplace museum at Raiding in Austria, these Brahms performances at times threaten...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2013

BJARNASON Over Light Earth. Emergence. Solitudes

The Bedroom Community label has built a notable roster of composers and none more so than Reykjavik-born Daníel Bjarnason (34...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2013

BOWEN; BAX; IRELAND Works for Cello and Piano

For many readers, this second disc of British music for cello and piano will be even more attractive than the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2013

BLISS; BAX; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Music for Viola and Piano

Here’s a generous anthology showcasing three major British contributions to the viola repertoire, all directly inspired by the incomparable Lionel...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2013

The Shining River

Had she lived another five years or so, Susan Chilcott, who died of cancer in 2003 at the age of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2013

Music & Monarchy

For those beyond the UK’s shores, David Starkey is a distinguished academic and historian, and a star media performer with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2013

Libera nos: The Cry of the Oppressed

The texts of this collection of well-known motets take up the cry ‘Libera nos’, common to both the Portuguese and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2013

WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch

Wolf never conceived the vignettes of his Italian Songbook as a unified cycle. The sequence must open with the exquisite...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2013

VERDI Messa da Requiem

Barenboim has made a habit of achieving what others just talk of – whether it’s giving the entry of Wagner’s...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013

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