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BAX Variations BUTTERWORTH Fantasia SCOTT Poem

‘Eccentric very!’ commented Edward German upon reading the manuscript score of Arnold Bax’s Variations for orchestra. Completed in June 1904...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2016

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos

The concertos for multiple harpsichords from the 1730s are, for the most part, transcriptions from lost earlier (or near-contemporaneous) sources...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2016

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

Neither of the ensembles on these two new Brandenburg sets is among the star names in the field, but the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2016

A GIBBS Suites

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs is one of those names you used to come across in piano stools: a very English petit-maître...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2016

TAVERNER Western Wind

Andrew Parrott’s past recordings of Taverner count among his finest achievements, and it is little short of scandalous that they...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2016

Benjamin Appl: Heine Lieder

The first sighting of Benjamin Appl came a few years ago when clips were posted on YouTube of his appearance...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2016

Rhinemaidens

Rivers tend to be men, but Father Rhine only had daughters to entertain him in his dotage. Those women are...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 05/2016

Simone Kermes: Love

Part recital, part musical self-help manual, Simone Kermes’s latest album is a guide to love, 17th-century style. Whether your romantic...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2016

In Memoriam

The death of David Trendell in 2014 at the age of just 50 deprived us of a larger-than-life figure who...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2016

Li Due Orfei. Haec Dies: Music for Easter

We all know what you get from an Oxbridge choral disc – at least we did until Graham Ross arrived...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2016

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