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WOOD Songs for Voice and Piano

Best known for his lasting contribution to Anglican church music, Armagh-born Charles Wood (1866-1926) was among the initial intake of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2025

WEINBERG Complete Songs for Bass Voice (Tomasz Raff)

Weinberg’s songs comprise some 30 of his 154 opuses, but they have lagged seriously behind in terms of recordings. Tomasz...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2025

Schubert's Four Seasons (Carolyn Sampson)

By now we know well what to expect from each new album from Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton: intelligent, impeccably...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2025

RAVEL The Complete Songs

Malcolm Martineau marks this year’s Ravel anniversary with a set of the complete songs, a sequel, in effect, to his...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2025

MENDELSSOHN Sacred Choral Works

Of all the facets of Mendelssohn’s large and varied output, it would appear to be the choral music that has...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2025

LISZT Via Crucis. Solo Piano Works (Leif Ove Andsnes)

Via Crucis is traditionally catalogued as a choral work. But although the default edition calls for voices with organ or...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2025

KNAIFEL Chapter Eight

The recent death of Alexander Knaifel may bring reappraisal of one who had little exposure in the UK. Gennady Rozhdestvensky...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2025

GROSZ; GUND 'Be Still my Heart'

You’d be forgiven for not knowing the names of Robert Gund (1865-1927) and Wilhelm Grosz (1894-1939). Gund (born Gound) was...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2025

BRUCKNER; GESUALDO Motets

They’re back, thank goodness; I’ve been missing the Monteverdi Choir of late. This is their first release on SDG since...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2025

JS BACH A Life in Music vol 2 - the Weimar Years

Whether in the wailing lamentation of Weinen, Klagen or the regal anticipation of the birth of Christ in Nun komm,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2025

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