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MANCHICOURT Missa Reges Terrae

It is one of the joys of a recording like this that it brings a remote moment in classical music...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017

GORDON Timber Remixed

‘Timber!’ is what lumberjacks yell to alert colleagues that a tree is falling. But there’s no need to run away...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2017

CHOPIN Complete Mazurkas

First released on the Dorian label in 1999, Andrew Rangell’s complete Chopin Mazurkas cycle gains a new lease of catalogue...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017

CHASE Bhajan

Over the course of five days on Seattle’s Mercer Island, where the noted billionaire Paul Allen lives, former California EAR...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017

Robert Henry: As the Songbird Sings

Although Brahms’s Op 118 Piano Pieces hardly lack for world-class recordings, Robert Henry’s generous and big-boned yet lyrically informed pianism...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017

Aida Garifullina

If your name is Aida, then soprano is a pretty savvy career path. Indeed, Decca is marketing Kazan-born Aida Garifullina...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017

SOMMER Rübezahl und der Sackpfeifer von Neiße

The folk figure of Rübezahl – a kind of magic factotum, largely pro the good and anti the bad –...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2017

ROSSINI Si, Si, Si, Si. Opera Arias and Duets

Those with long memories may recall another disc of Rossini arias which started with ‘Cruda sorte!’ from L’italiana in Algeri....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2017

ROMBERG The Student Prince

In its heyday, Sigmund Romberg’s The Student Prince ruled Broadway. Its original run lasted 608 performances and during the 1920s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017

PURCELL Dido and Aeneas

From a conceptual and presentational point of view this is all rather a muddle, but at bottom is a very...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2017

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