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FAURÉ The Complete Songs, Vol 3

Volume 3 of Malcolm Martineau’s Fauré series closes with a performance by William Dazeley of Mirages, Fauré’s penultimate song-cycle, written...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018

DONIZETTI Requiem (Luks)

When Vincenzo Bellini died in 1835 at just 34, Donizetti, four years his junior, was determined to honour his memory....

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018

DEBUSSY Mélodies (Thierry Félix)

Thierry Félix’s Debussy recital was recorded in 1995 but seems largely to have been overlooked on its first release a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018

BRUCKNER Missa Solemnis

The key may be B flat minor but the debt of Bruckner’s opening gambit to the D minor of Mozart’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2018

BRAHMS Song of Destiny: Works for Choir and Orchestra

Jaime Martín turns to the shorter choral works for the second instalment of his Brahms survey, launched last year with...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018

BRAHMS The Complete Songs Vol 7

For the latest in Hyperion’s Brahms series, Benjamin Appl is reunited with Graham Johnson, restoring a combination that proved so...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018

S BACH Six Motets BWV225‑230

Grete Pedersen and the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir have been well received in these pages over the past decade for recordings...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2018

JS BACH Mass in B minor (Christie)

The mystical ideal of waiting to perform late, great art until well into pensionable age may apply to pianists and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2018

Joseph Calleja; Sonya Yoncheva: Verdi Albums

What is the purpose of a disc of arias from operas the singer has never performed? An audition tape? Trying...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2018

STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier (Albrecht)

I would like to have seen on DVD the Dutch company’s 50th-anniversary production of no fewer than four performances from...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2018

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