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Lise Davidsen: Strauss and Wagner

It’s been a long time since a singer has generated as much buzz as the Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, Gramophone’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2019

An English Coronation 1902-1953 (Gabrieli Consort)

On his tireless voyage of ceremonial and liturgical reconstruction, Paul McCreesh’s 20th-century coronation anthology is arguably his most ambitious and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2019

CHAUSSON Poème de l'Amour et de la mer. Symphony Op 20

A work that tends to bring out the best in the singers who have tackled it, Poème de l’amour et...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2019

SCHUBERT Sonatas & Impromptus (Schiff)

Here’s an analogy for András Schiff’s second disc in his survey of Schubert’s late works on his Brodmann fortepiano. Imagine...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2019

Olivier Latry: Bach To The Future

Ah, this is more like it! Bach played with no hang-ups, using the full resources of a magnificent organ (the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2019

REICH 'Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton’

With performances by Steve Reich and Musicians – Reich’s own group – becoming a far less regular occurrence these days,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2019

BEETHOVEN 5 Cello Sonatas (Leonard Elschenbroich)

There’s little in Beethoven’s output that’s undervalued but I have the sense that the cello sonatas don’t quite get the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

Iestyn Davies: If

Last year the American countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo gave us a recital pairing music by Philip Glass and Handel (Decca)....

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2019

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 2 (Bezuidenhout)

Among a flurry of Mendelssohn piano concerto recordings in recent months, the direct competitor to this new one will be...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019

BRITTEN; PURCELL String Quartets (Doric Quartet)

The Doric Quartet’s beautiful Britten cycle was recorded in tandem with a series of concerts, greatly admired, in Snape Maltings...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

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