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Mirabilis - The Music of Stephen Hough

In September 2006 pianist and composer Stephen Hough overturned on the motorway at 80mph. He walked away from the accident...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23

CESTI 'Insegnatemi a morire'

What is this voice? I first received this album on the road, so I put it on before looking at...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW23

BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu Nostri

It’s more than 10 years since I last encountered this ensemble, performing music by the Lassus pupil Johannes Eccard (9/12);...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW23

BENEVOLI Missa Tu es Petrus

I have followed I Fagiolini’s recorded output closely since their release of ‘The Other Vespers’, which Gramophone’s David Vickers described...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW23

JS BACH; MACMILLAN Motets and Sacred Songs

Singing Bach’s music, music director Nigel Short explains in his booklet essay, was one of his earliest – and happiest...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23

JS BACH Cantatas BWV6, 99 & 147

From two initial releases on Virgin Classics in the early 1990s, a dozen or so since for Harmonia Mundi and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW23

ARCADELT Missa Noe Noe

Jacques Arcadelt’s posthumous fame rests almost entirely on his smash hit ‘Il bianco e dolce cigno’. To mark the 450th...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW23

Anna Lapwood: Luna

Any opportunity to hear the glorious Hill, Norman and Beard organ of the Royal Hospital School at Holbrook, Ipswich, should...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW23

Igor Levit: Fantasia

The latest of Igor Levit’s thematically linked collections solidifies his reputation as a pianist of unflinching intellectual rigour and breathtaking...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW23

Cyborg Pianist

It’s not uncommon these days for new releases to be saddled with adjectives like groundbreaking or cutting-edge. But from time...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW23

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