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You Did Not Want For Joy

This is a delight of a disc. Short and slight – pared back to the essentials of both texture and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023

Sirens' Song

One would have to travel very far to find an album of British a cappella (mostly) music as beautifully sung...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2023

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Konstantin Krimmel)

In his booklet note for this excellent new recording of Die schöne Müllerin, Konstantin Krimmel muses on the suicide figures...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023

RODGERS Oklahoma! (Wilson)

This is important. Oklahoma! was a big moment – perhaps the big moment – in musical theatre’s ‘coming of age’....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2023

FAURÉ Nocturnes & Barcarolles (Marc-André Hamelin)

To whichever composer Marc-André Hamelin turns his (amazing) hand(s), he reinvents himself, chameleon-like, to convince you that he is the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2023

From Mannheim to Berlin - Sonatas for Violoncello Piccolo

This is simply lovely. The violoncello piccolo is slightly smaller than the normal instrument and tuned a fifth higher; the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2023

LISZT Faust Symphony (Karabits)

Following his earlier recordings of Liszt’s Sardanapalo (2/19) and A Dante Symphony (4/20) for Audite, Kirill Karabits now turns his...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2023

FUCHS Orchestral Works Vol 1 (Wilson)

This issue marks the first foray into contemporary repertoire by John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London. The four works...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2023

Juliet Fraser: What of Words and What of Song

At a difficult time for UK new music (the much-loved contemporary ensemble Psappha depressingly having taken the decision to close...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2023

Lawrence Brownlee: Rising

American tenor Lawrence Brownlee’s new recording is a very personal project – a disc with a mission. ‘Rising’, in the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2023

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