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When in the foothills of a grand Bach project, selection of works can have a significant bearing on the balance and shape...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2017
After mixed recitals featuring Chopin (with whom she has been associated since winning the 2010 Chopin Competition), Yulianna Avdeeva now turns her...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017
The Marian Consort made its debut recording for the Delphian label in 2011 with an acclaimed programme of ‘Music of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2017
Two sets of Lamentations and a penitential cantata bring plenty of darkness to this disc of sacred works from 18th-century Naples....
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017
This latest exploration of Buxtehude and his circle from Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices is a joyful, festive...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2017
The great French singer-songwriter Barbara died 20 years ago this November at the age of 67. Alexandre Tharaud, then in his late...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017
While Christian Gerhaher’s 2003 recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin doesn’t have English translations of the poem texts (RCA, 2/04),...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2017
The third volume of Ian Bostridge’s leisurely Schubert series for Wigmore Hall Live is devoted to songs dealing with longing – urgent,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017
The debut album of Ensemble 1904, founded by the pianist David Jackson to explore the lesser-known 20th-century French and British chamber repertory,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017
This two-disc set is an anthology of Penderecki’s very substantial output of choral music, in superb performances under the composer’s direction. The first...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2017
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
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Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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