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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Folk Songs, Vol 1

Albion Records has assembled a distinguished line-up for this first of four volumes devoted to Vaughan Williams’s complete published arrangements...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2020

SHEPPARD Media vita (Choir of New College Oxford)

There are many reasons why this new release from the Choir of New College Oxford directed by Robert Quinney will...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2020

PURCELL Royal Welcome Songs for King Charles II, Vol 3

This well-constructed programme gets off to a charming start with Rejoice in the Lord alway, in which Purcell acknowledges his...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2020

HANDEL Messiah (Doyle)

An Anglo-German partnership is fitting for Handel, and here we have the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin under their English conductor with...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2020

BRUCKNER Mass in E minor (Cleobury; Herreweghe)

Soon after welcoming the Pentatone release of Bruckner’s E minor Mass conducted by Gijs Leenaars (A/20), here are two more...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2020

BRITTEN A Ceremony of Carols. Saint Nicolas

Conceived on board the MS Axel Johnson during Britten’s hazardous return voyage from North America to the UK in 1942,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2020

BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Lieder (Elīna Garanča)

DG’s publicity blurb for this album describes it as ‘both a debut and a proof of musical pedigree’. It’s the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas. Diabelli Variations (Daniel Barenboim)

Most of us seem to have spent much of lockdown earlier this year failing to get anywhere with optimistic to-do...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2020

Khatia Buniatishvili: Labyrinth

Khatia Buniatishvili is a pianist of extremes. She has fantastic fingers, a charismatic stage presence, a warm, glowing tone and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020

THALBERG L'Art du Chant (Paul Wee)

L’art du chant appliqué au piano consists of 26 numbers published in four volumes between 1853 and 1863, each containing...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020

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