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SCHUBERT 'The Fair Maid of the Mill'

Nearly four years since Signum’s release of Schubert’s Winter Journey (5/18) and Swan Song (11/18), we get on to the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2022

SCHUBERT '21 Songs' (Alice Coote)

The challenge of any Schubert recital is translating all that is implied by his miniature masterworks into a keyhole view...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2022

SCARLATTI Stabat Mater & Other Works

Domenico Scarlatti is best known for the hundreds of keyboard sonatas that he composed during the latter part of his...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2022

RAMEAU Nouvelle symphonie

I’m sure baritone soloist Florian Sempey and conductor Marc Minkowski won’t mind if I first praise the four other heroes...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2022

MONTEVERDI Il quarto libro de madrigali

The sensual wrestle between pleasure and pain is at the core of many of the texts set in Monteverdi’s Fourth...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2022

BARBER The Complete Songs

Three cheers for this enterprising anthology from Resonus Classics, which adds no fewer than 19 items already published by G...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2022

JS BACH Cantatas for Bass

This is not the first time Stephan MacLeod has recorded Ich habe genug, nor even the second. He sang it...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2022

Joo Yeon Sir: Solitude

The standout performance here was specifically commissioned for this album: Through the Fog by Laura Snowden. It is an eerie...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2022

Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux: Ostinata

In these days of customary moans that all string players sound the same (especially among the younger generation, where teaching...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2022

Yuki Negishi: Enigma

Is there a more audacious way to commence your solo debut recording than by diving into Nikolai Kapustin’s wildly rhapsodic...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022

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