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FINNISSY The History of Photography in Sound
Michael Finnissy completed The History of Photography in Sound, his thematically interlinked cycle of 11 solo piano pieces, with a...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2014
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 8 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21
Sarah Beth Briggs’s Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert recital tells us of a double commitment. First, in depth and consideration she...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014
Orient-Occident II
Jordi Savall’s explorations of non-Western repertoires continue with this luxuriously presented collaboration between the members of Hespèrion XXI and musicians...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2014
Il cor tristo
This disc intersperses Renaissance madrigals by Bernardo Pisano and Jacques Arcadelt with the three sections of Roger Marsh’s Il cor...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2014
MACMILLAN Alpha & Omega
It’s no coincidence that the same early music groups who specialise in Renaissance polyphony are increasingly making a second study...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2014
BUXTEHUDE Opera Omnia XVII
This is the seventh volume, no less, of vocal music in Ton Koopman’s Buxtehude complete works cycle, and the fifth...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2014
TENET: UNO + ONE
Monteverdi sung by twins? You could jump to that conclusion hearing this disc of vocal duets by Tenet’s perfectly matched...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014
Truro 125
Truro Cathedral was consecrated in 1887, and the 125th anniversary celebrations in 2012 included the commissioning of four new compositions...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2014
The Image of Melancholy
‘The most wonderful recording session of my life,’ says Bjarte Eike in the booklet to this disc, and indeed the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2014
Diana Damrau: Forever
Diana Damrau describes this CD as a ‘soundtrack of memory’, which takes her on a very personal journey from Vienna...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2014
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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