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EISLER Lieder Und Balladen Vol 1

Hanns Eisler’s songs have been reasonably well represented on disc, not least with high-profile recordings from Matthias Goerne (including the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2017

Nights Not Spent Alone

For her second solo album, the British mezzo Kitty Whately has set down authoritative accounts of what is billed as...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2017

JS BACH Celebratory Cantatas VIII

As Masaaki Suzuki and his experienced Japanese colleagues traverse the remaining secular cantatas in the series, the question arises as...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2017

JS BACH Complete Solo Soprano Cantatas Vol 1

This mini-series of cantatas for solo soprano encompasses nine works of exceptional quality and variety, the initial volume of three...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2017

Heroic Proportions

Of late, if Bach’s St Anne Prelude and Fugue (aka Prelude and ‘St Anne’s’ Fugue, as on an MSR Classics...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2017

TROTTA Seven Last Words

The booklet tells one precious little about this choral cantata but the composer’s website fills in the gaps. Thus, Seven...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2017

S L TAN Revelations

Writing music for friends and colleagues must be one of the greatest joys of the composer’s art. Here it is...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2017

NOWAKOWSKI Blood, Forgotten. String Quartet Nos 1 & 2

The intense emotional worlds the music of Mark Nowakowski inhabits pay tribute to the struggles and enduring spirit of the...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2017

WEISGALL Piano Sonata HINDEMITH Ludus Tonalis

Hindemith’s 1942 contrapuntal tour de force Ludus tonalis turns up less frequently on disc than certain other large-scale piano epics....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2017

GARLAND The Birthday Party

Subtlety is the pervasive quality that pianist Aki Takahashi conveys so luminously on this disc of works by Peter Garland....

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2017

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