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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

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

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