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PÄRT Passio

While one might well question the need for another recording of Passio, Pärt’s monumental setting of the Passion and death...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2021

MOZART Complete Masses, Vol 1 (Poppen)

As far as Mozart’s Masses are concerned, Naxos comes rather late to the party, waiting until its 30th birthday before...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2021

KAPSBERGER Kapsberger in Rome, 1610 'Il Tedesco'

Johann Hieronymus (or Giovanni Girolamo) Kapsberger is best known, together with Alessandro Piccinini, for providing grateful modern performers and programme...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2021

JOSQUIN Baisiez Moy

This would be a terrific Christmas present for your Josquin-fan friend. Not only are the performances all on an extremely...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2021

ELGAR Where Corals Lie – A Journey through Songs (Julia Sitkovetsky)

A major-label Elgar song recital would seem to be overdue. Beyond the well-known Sea Pictures, ‘The Muleteer’s Serenade’, taken directly...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2021

I BOYLE Songs

‘I think it is most courageous of you to go on with such little recognition. The only thing to say...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2021

Magdalena Kožená: Nostalgia

On the face of it, the three composers represented on Magdalena Kožená’s latest album have next to nothing in common....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2021

JS BACH The Art of Fugue (Filippo Gorini. Daniil Trifonov)

When we say Bach was a family man, what do we mean? Albums such as the ‘Alt-Bachisches Archiv’ from Cantus...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021

Christoph Croisé: The Solo Album

Christoph Croisé gives an exceptionally free account of Kodály’s monumental Solo Sonata, applying rubato copiously throughout. It’s a somewhat risky...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021

Cordelia Williams: Nightlight

>It is sometimes said, only half-jokingly, that Schubert didn’t write for the piano, but against it. Even among the most...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021

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