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This is one of those discs where a word count is a strange thing. For it needs only four: Go...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017
The last few years have been a period of extremes for Pergolesi’s Stabat mater. High-profile recordings have veered wildly between...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2017
Haydn’s reputation as a competent pianist but no wizard is surely correct; he appears never to have stepped forwards to...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2017
It’s been some years since we’ve had a disc of Brahms’s sextets as thoroughly satisfying as this one, recorded live...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2017
Here for once is a Mahler symphony release that feels different from the outset. Jared Sacks and his colleagues at...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2017
In 1926 Aaron Copland declared that George Antheil ‘possesses the greatest gifts of any American now writing’. Ten years later,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2017
Lest anyone harbour reservations about Shai Wosner’s gifts as an imaginative programmer, this CD should lay them to rest. Using...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2017
Towards the end of his life Stanford wrote two sets of 24 Preludes for piano boasting impeccable craft and characteristic...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2017
Jean-Philippe Collard’s discography is weighted toward his compatriots, including much-lauded Fauré and Saint Saëns, but during the 1970s he made...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2017
Nine years have passed since Javier Perianes’s first disc of Schubert and here he programmes two utterly opposing sonatas, the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017
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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