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CORNELIUS Complete Lieder Vol 1

This is an enchanting disc. Peter Cornelius is best remembered, at least in Germany, as the composer of the opera...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013

CARON Masses and Chansons

Continuing their forays through the less well-known parts of the Renaissance repertory, The Sound and the Fury now give us...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2013

BRITTEN War Requiem

As with his previous recordings of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts (11/11) and Mendelssohn’s Elijah (11/12), Paul McCreesh brings together...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2013

Michelangelo in Song

Legendary recording producer Walter Legge is said to have once told Maria Callas that if she didn’t tame her vibrato,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2013

Fame's Great Trumpet

David Owen Norris is best known as a pianist, both as a virtuoso soloist and as an accompanist. But here...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013

JS BACH Cantatas Vol 54

Bach’s sacred cantata-writing was almost non-existent by the mid-1730s which is why, in this penultimate volume of Masaaki Suzuki’s steady...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2013

Daniel Behle sings JS Bach

If, as I did, you find it difficult to get on with the yapping delivery of ‘Ermuntre dich’, the first...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2013

Piers Lane Goes to Town

Very Superior Persons should skip this. The rest of us can sit back and enjoy it. Piers Lane’s booklet traces...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2013

Stefano Grondona: Nocturnal

Stefano Grondona continues his interest in the history of the guitar, this recording being a homage to Britten in the...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2013

Yan Levionnois: Cello Solo

There has always been something particularly elegant about French cellists, and older generations of sophisticated players such as Alain Meunier...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2013

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