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TANEYEV; ARENSKY Piano Quintets

The shadow of Tchaikovsky is sometimes said to fall over both of these fine works; it would be fairer to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2013

Schöne Welt, Wo Bist Du?

As precious as the title sounds to hardened urbanites, it serves warning about the singular musical world created by this...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2013

Bailes, Tonadas & Cachuas (from Trujillo, Peru)

Three years ago I reviewed Hesperion XXI’s very enjoyable anthology of early Latin American music (‘El Nuevo Mundo’ – Alia...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2013

Amore e morte dell’amore

An album of Baroque love duets seems to tumble off the presses every other month. Not that I’m complaining when...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2013

TALLIS Salve intemerata virgo. Missa Salve intemerata

The Cardinall’s Musick have won plaudits for their Tallis in the past and their return to him after a hiatus...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2013

SZYMANOWSKI Stabat Mater. Harnasie

Two of Szymanowski’s most sublime later works here receive performances entirely commensurate with their stature and thoroughly in tune with...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013

RACHMANINOV The Bells. Symphonic Dances

Compared with the UK and the USA, Germany has in general been slow to embrace the music of Rachmaninov, or...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013

PUTS To Touch the Sky. Symphony No 4

With the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music under his belt (for his debut opera, Silent Night), all ears are turned...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2013

PURCELL How pleasant ‘tis to Love!

An unexpected sound greets you at the very beginning of this CD: ‘Sound the trumpet’ as a duet not for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2013

Mascagni in Concert

Gianandrea Noseda’s latest expedition down lesser-trodden musical byways of his native country presents us with a chronologically wide-ranging orchestral programme...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013

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