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GUARNIERI Choros Vol 2: Flor de Tremembé

In the sense meant by the old phrase ‘a painter’s painter’, Camargo Guarnieri is ‘a composer’s composer’. His music grabs...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2022

GHEDINI L'Olmeneta MALIPIERO Cello Concerto

There are passages in Gian Francesco Malipiero’s 1937 Cello Concerto that sound as if they might have come from a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2022

DEBUSSY La Damoiselle élue. Le martyre de Saint Sébastien

The Debussian sensibility is writ large here. One can trace a line of succession from the ‘Sirènes’ of Nocturnes via...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2022

New York Youth: Price, Coleman, Montgomery

Florence Price is fast becoming the flag-bearer for a whole new generation of female African American composers. And she is...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2022

MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Dantone)

‘What God watches over the sleeping?’ asks Monteverdi’s Ulisse in his first outpouring. Here it’s the whole damn lot of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2022

Héloïse Werner: Phrases

It is hard not to be in awe of Héloïse Werner: a soprano of extraordinary range, tone and vocal abilities,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022

Helen Charlston: Battle Cry - She Speaks

‘Battle Cry’ – it’s an arresting title for an equally arresting album, the solo recital debut from mezzo Helen Charlston....

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2022

JOSQUIN DESPREZ 'Tant vous aime'

Josquin has long been established as a pre-eminent oltremontano – a northern European composer who crossed over the mountains into...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2022

CHAMPION Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena

If I praised this ensemble’s last disc to the skies (8/21), it’s because it brought something new to the table:...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2022

The Art of Duo-Piano Playing

Though not as well known in the UK and Europe as they were in the US, the piano duo of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2022

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