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While recently hearing Matthias Goerne’s deadly serious Beethoven Lieder disc (DG, 4/20), I kept thinking that what this music really...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2020
Think Rachmaninov romances and one thinks of sighing poets, unrequited love and plenty of Russian doom and gloom, usually sung...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2020
This is a focused and absorbing programme, splicing choral works by Pärt with Vasks’s Plainscapes and MacMillan’s Magnificat. It finds...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2020
As a former Swingle Singer and currently artistic director and principal conductor of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2020
Unfamiliar as I was with the music of Louis Lewandowski (1821 94), the first name that came to mind on...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020
‘Its proportions are modest in comparison with the Mass in B minor or the Missa solemnis’, wrote The Musical Times...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2020
This really does look like two recordings on one disc. The works it presents are so radically different in style,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2020
The title for this album might suggest a mixed recital, picking and choosing songs along the theme from across Brahms’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2020
Aside from a crooked entry here and there, Paavo Järvi’s anniversary account of the German Requiem, performed a century and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2020
Regular readers will know that I think this to be a masterpiece – perhaps Bernstein’s most significant, certainly his most...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2020
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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