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MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Fischer)

The Utah Symphony were the first American orchestra to record a complete Mahler cycle. Under Thierry Fischer, Utah’s music director...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2018

LITTLE Woefully Arrayed

The best way to experience the works by Jonathan David Little on this disc may not be through the recording,...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 01/2018

HAHN Amour sans ailes

Zachary Gordin and his regular recital partner, Bryan Nies, opt for Hahn for their first album together, strikingly programmed, if,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2018

Unbroken Line

Right underneath Jeffrey LaDeur’s name on the CD booklet’s back is the name of the piano technician, Christopher Johnson, yet...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017

Mary Bevan: Voyages

Baudelaire’s ‘L’invitation au voyage’ and Goethe’s ‘Kennst du das Land’ are the starting points for Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton’s...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2018

Two Little Words

‘It’s hard not to reminisce at this stage of my life and career, now that I have been singing, one...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017

Splendour

Once praised for its perfection by Michael Praetorius, the 1624 Hans Scherer organ of St Stephan of Tangermünde is one...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2018

Thomas Hampson: Serenade

Given that Thomas Hampson’s discography includes several distinguished recordings of French opera, it comes as something of a surprise to...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2018

A Pleasing Melancholy

John Dowland’s songs have been a touchstone in the career of soprano Emma Kirkby, revisited at every stage of her...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2018

NYMAN No Time in Eternity

Michael Nyman’s soundtrack to Prospero’s Books – director Peter Greenaway’s 1991 postmodern homage to Shakespeare’s The Tempest – remains one...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2018

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