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BARBER; WEILL; PFIZNER Sonatas for Cello and Piano

At first glance, these three composers appear to have little in common. However, the sonatas are all early works, written...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 03/2013

JS BACH Partita BWV1005 BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No 9

It may look on the outside like a bit of a pops disc (best-known Bach and Beethoven, and white-knuckle showpieces...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2013

Where late the sweet birds sang

An Oxford institution for over 20 years (with a personnel list that ebbs and flows with the best singers of...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2013

Wanderer: Songs & Lieder

Recital audiences are often confronted with singers performing texts originally written for different genders and voice types, so this recording...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 01/2013

Passion & Resurrection: Music inspired by Holy Week

Stile Antico have continued a tradition established by the Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen, though with a bigger sound than...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2013

O poore distracted world!

This exploration of mostly 17th-century English sacred music understandably gives pride of place to Purcell and his mentors Locke and...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2013

Coloratura

Are coloratura soprano showcases ever supposed to be this provocative? With her solid technique, mid-weight chest voice, small but spot-on...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2013

SCHUMANN Liederkreis, Op 39. Op 24

Now at the peak of his recording career, Gerald Finley is unsystematically jumping from Ives to Ravel to Schumann, no...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2013

Hommage to Johannes Ockeghem

In a recent online round-up, I remarked that Obrecht’s discography is more remarkable for quantity than consistency, especially in the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2013

NØRGÅRD Libra. Rêves en pleine lumière. Kredsløb (Cycle)

Listening to Per Nørgård’s Libra, you wonder how a composer could write music that at once sounds so invitingly familiar...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2013

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