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GOMBERT Motets II
This double album of motets by Nicolas Gombert (c1495-1560) from the vocal ensemble Beauty Farm is their second release, offering...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2017
DURANTE Requiem
Francesco Durante (1684-1755) made a profound mark on musical culture in early-18th-century Naples. His pupils at the city’s prestigious conservatories...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017
DANIELPOUR Songs of Solitude. War Songs
Richard Danielpour composed Songs of Solitude (2002), on poems by Yeats, in the weeks following the September 11 attacks; War...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017
CALDARA Salve Regina
Antonio Caldara is best remembered today as a composer of opera. It’s a genre absent from this new collection of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2017
Sleepers Awake!
The latest disc from The Bach Players, based as usual on one of their London concert programmes, brings together three...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2017
ARNALDS Island Songs
Island Songs follows on from a number of projects by Ólafur Arnalds, such as Found Songs and Living Room Songs...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017
Venezia 1700
Les Accents, founded in 2014, is an ensemble devoted to vocal and instrumental music of the 17th and 18th centuries....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2017
The Cellist of Sarajevo
David Wilde’s list of achievements as a solo pianist spanning 50 years – from being the winner of several major...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017
SCHULHOFF Chamber Music
Naxos provides a quality sampling from the creative prime of an extraordinarily gifted 20th-century Czech composer-pianist who died of tuberculosis...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017
REINECKE Chamber Music for Clarinet, Horn and Piano
Fascinating to hear music by the German composer Carl Reinecke alongside that of the Dane Niels Gade (see page 45),...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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