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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Opp 109-111 (Steven Osborne)

I was much looking forward to getting my hands on this CD, having chosen Steven Osborne’s previous Beethoven sonata disc,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2019

Songs and Vexations

In his booklet note Andrew Matthews-Owen explains the long gestation of this programme. But you can already get a sense...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2019

Stéphanie d'Oustrac: Sirènes

This is a paradoxical disc in some ways. Given Stéphanie d’Oustrac’s track record in her native French repertory, most people,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

Poèmes d'un Jour (Stéphane Degout)

For his previous solo albums, Stéphane Degout has always confined himself to the French repertory, of which he remains a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

Love is Come Again: Music for the Springhead Easter Play

If, like me, you enjoyed the eclectic and beautifully poised Christmas disc ‘Once as I Remember …’ from John Eliot...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2019

TAVENER Angels (Lumsden)

I am finishing this review precisely on what would have been John Tavener’s 75th birthday. Such an anniversary causes one...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2019

SCHUBERT Heimweh Songs (Anna Lucia Richter)

Anna Lucia Richter’s singing of the bittersweet ‘An den Mond’ – gentle, inward, the ornaments gracefully etched – immediately reveals...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019

R PANUFNIK Love Abide

If I had to choose a ‘glass-half-full’ contemporary composer, then Roxanna Panufnik would be near the top of my list....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2019

MARTINŮ Songs (Janková, Král, Kahánek)

This deeply touching disc gathers together four sets of Martinů’s songs, both early and late. Two thirds of it is...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

LOEWE Das Sühnopfer des Neuen Bundes (Passion Oratorio)

For all his industry and popular success in the oratorio genre, Carl Loewe is almost exclusively associated outside Germany with...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019

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