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Tudor Music Afterlives

This intriguing recital brings us music from a period that is very well documented on record but much of what...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2023

Music For Lady Louise

‘Pray, good people, be civil, I am the Protestant whore’: so said Nell Gwyn, displaying the wit for which she...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023

Ruby Hughes: Echo

This meticulously curated programme from Ruby Hughes could be called ‘The Quiet Album’. It intersperses Bach sarabandes for solo keyboard...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2023

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Mystical Songs and Other British Choral Anthems

Here’s yet another fresh slant on the glorious Five Mystical Songs to mark Vaughan Williams’s 150th birthday, this time with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2023

MUHLY The Street

Having provided the acoustic space for Parker Ramsay’s impressive debut album – the Goldberg Variations in his own arrangement for...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2023

MACHAUT Remede de Fortune

Several difficulties arise in recording Machaut’s Remede de Fortune. The first is that it is basically a narrative, over 4000...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2023

BERLIOZ Les Nuits d'été. Harold en Italie

Hector Berlioz’s six songs (1840-41) setting the poetry of his friend Théophile Gautier were published together merely for the sake...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2023

BABBITT Works for Treble Voice & Piano

On this welcome complete collection of Milton Babbitt’s music for high voice and piano, the signal work for me is...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 01/2023

Rachel Podger: Tutta sola

Since making standard-setting recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas (7/99, 12/99), Rachel Podger has returned intermittently to the solo violin...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2023

George Xiaoyuan Fu: Mirrors

It is very much the fashion for young pianists to record multi-movement suites by a single composer and intersperse pieces...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023

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