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Music To Hear: Alfonso Ferrabosco, Music For Lyra Viol From 1609

Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (c1575-1628) was one of the greatest exponents of and composers for the lyra viol, a fretted...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2023

Jean-Paul Gasparian: Debussy

The recording was made in the Salon de Musique, Hôtel de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris. This has an acoustic that...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2023

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2 and 7 (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)

Scharwenka’s ingenious four-hand versions of the Beethoven symphonies are not easy to carry off. They may have been intended for...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2023

JS BACH Complete Lute Works and other Transcriptions (Nigel North)

Nigel North’s four-disc series for Linn of ‘Bach on the Lute’ back in the 1990s was rightly admired: ‘performances that...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2023

JS BACH Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol 8: Köthen, 1717-1723 (Benjamin Alard)

Benjamin Alard has arrived at the eighth volume of a projected 18 of all Bach’s keyboard works. As he explains...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2023

Tessa Lark: The Stradgrass Sessions

'The Stradgrass Sessions’ – one of the more evocative album titles of late, conjuring late-into-the-night laughter, whiskey and musicians just...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2023

Jeux de Couleurs: Celis, Debussy, Ravel

'An orchestra of three’ is how Trio Khaldei describe themselves, and this latest disc could almost serve as a sonic...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2023

An American Rhapsody

Following a number of releases (including the 2018 cross-genre anthology ‘Hidden Gems’ and Hans Abrahamsen’s Walden – Winter & Winter,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2023

Seicento Stravagante: Music for Cornetto & Keyboard

Seicento Stravagante are a cornetto and keyboard duo, formed in 2018 and here making their recording debut in core repertoire...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2023

WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 3 (Arcadia Quartet)

The Arcadia Quartet continue their cycle of string quartets by Mieczysław Weinberg (previous volumes were reviewed in 3/21 and 5/22)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2023

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