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Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
It’s a comparatively rare event for an artist to be afforded the luxury of recording a major work for a second time....
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW17
The chief work on BIS’s fourth CD devoted to the music of John Pickard (b1963) is his Fifth and most...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW17
Rarely have I been as moved by Strauss’s ‘Study for 23 solo strings’, his in memoriam to a severely bruised culture and to bombed...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW17
The music of Francesco Barsanti (c1690-1775) normally only makes it on to a recording when it shows its Scottish accent....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW17
Brahms’s Third Sonata has been a calling card for Nelson Freire since the earliest days – for his farewell recital in Rio de...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW17
The face of Martin Luther stares out from the cover of this latest disc from the Choir of Clare College,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW17
William Lawes is better known for his instrumental music than for vocal music, and his brother Henry’s reputation today rests...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW17
This enjoyable recording, the first of an intended series on music in Baltic countries, presents a series of Lutheran cantatas written...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW17
This enjoyable recording, the first of an intended series on music in Baltic countries, presents a series of Lutheran cantatas written...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW17
If any Requiem is going to be suitable for performance in the 15,000-seat Hollywood Bowl, then I suppose it’s Verdi’s – famously operatic, by...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
'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
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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