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GOSSWIN Selected Works

At the risk of invoking Thomas Beecham, I absolutely love the sound this ensemble make, especially the clarity and agility...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2023

FRASER-SIMSON 'Enchanted Places'

Now for something completely different. The recording takes its title from The Enchanted Places, the 1974 memoir by Christopher Milne,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2023

CHAMINADE 'Saisons d'Amour'

Popular in her lifetime, then ignored for decades, Cécile Chaminade’s mélodies have edged their way back into the repertory of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2023

The Honour of William Byrd (Helen Charlston)

A collection of Byrd consort songs with Helen Charlston has been a major desideratum since she first hit the headlines...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2023

BRAHMS Songbook, Vol 1 (Thomas Oliemans)

In a personal note accompanying this release, baritone Thomas Oliemans defends Brahms’s Romanzen aus ‘Die schöne Magelone’ as a true...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023

For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms

Hélène Grimaud’s new DG release, ‘For Clara’, is a bouquet of works by the two composers closest to Clara Wieck...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2023

BERLIOZ Les nuits d’été RAVEL Shéhérazade SAINT-SAËNS Mélodies persanes

Québécoise contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux is an inimitable performer, a real personality who delivers with an engaging commitment to text. These...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023

JC BACH; JS BACH Motets (Solomon’s Knot)

Spread over two discs, this new, beautifully presented recording features the complete surviving motets by JS Bach set in the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2023

JS BACH St John Passion (McGegan)

Next year is the tercentenary of the first performance of Bach’s St John Passion on Good Friday 1724, so expect...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2023

JS BACH Mass in B minor (Reize)

The questionable durability of Bach recordings from the Thomanerchor Leipzig is an interesting phenomenon. While the choir has always carried...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2023

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