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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

HINDEMITH Marienleben (Juliane Banse)

The discography of Hindemith’s great song-cycle setting Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Marienleben, is complicated by the fact that it exists...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18

EISLER Lieder Vol 3: Songs in American Exile, 1938-1948

The third volume of Holger Falk and Steffen Schleiermacher’s superb survey of the songs of Hanns Eisler sees them reach...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18

CHESNOKOV Teach Me Thy Statutes

In 1920 Pavel Chesnokov was appointed Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, teaching choral techniques. He published a major treatise on...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW18

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem (Hill)

Despite being widely performed since its publication in 2010, the chamber-scaled arrangement of the Requiem by the flautist Johannes Linckelmann...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW18

DEBUSSY Harmonie du soir

Harmonia Mundi has decided to mark the centenary of Debussy’s death this year not by issuing a bumper box of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW18

Decades: A Century of Song Vol 3

With Schubert dead and Schumann devoting himself almost exclusively to the piano, the 1830s might seem a relatively fallow, ‘in-between’...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW18

LOURIÉ Piano Works (Erny)

Although Arthur Vincent Lourié was a key figure among Russian composers involved in the Futurist movement, his earlier works often...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW18

PAGANINI Sonatas for Violin and Guitar (Biondi & Pinardi)

Given that this album has taken up permanent residence beside my stereo since it popped on to my doormat a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW18

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