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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas (Jan Bartoš)

This is the Czech pianist Jan Bartoš’s second Supraphon release. Last year he recorded two Mozart concertos for the label...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2018

Ashley Fripp: Piano

Ashley Fripp first came to my attention via a 2013 disc containing polished though small-scale interpretations of both Chopin concertos...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW18

Thomas Allen: September Songs

Thomas Allen has long been an admirer of the ‘Great American Songbook’ and has always wanted to ‘give it a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW18

And so it goes: Songs of Folk and Lore

This somewhat uneven collection of 21 self-styled ‘Songs of Folk and Lore’ is held together by a booklet note which...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW18

Vivica Genaux: Hommage à Vivaldi

It took me a while to get my head round this release. At first sight it appears a straightforward presentation...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW18

STENHAMMAR Sången (Järvi)

Wilhelm Stenhammar established the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra as one of the finest in the Nordic region as its first Chief...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW18

RODGERS Carousel

Carousel is arguably the most beautiful of all Broadway’s ‘Golden Age’ scores; Rodgers’s finest hour. Of that I, personally, am...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW18

PARK Choral Works

Twenty-something composer Owain Park is very much the rising star on the British choral scene, carving out a reputation as...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW18

R PANUFNIK Celestial Bird

As Jessica Duchen observes in her warmly sympathetic booklet notes, choral music presently accounts for over two-thirds of Roxanna Panufnik’s...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW18

HURD Choral Works and Solo Songs

Hats off to Lyrita for this second helping of choral offerings by Gloucester-born Michael Hurd (1928-2006), a much-loved scholar, lecturer,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW18

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