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BARTÓK Works for Violin and Piano

A very useful double-pack, this, which, although not always absolutely top-of-the-league performance-wise, is certainly good enough to convey the essence...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Selected Romances

Christian Heindl muses, in his booklet note, that Tchaikovsky’s songs might have achieved greater international fame if the composer had...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016

SIBELIUS Songs

This selection of about a third of Sibelius’s solo songs with piano confirms again the composer’s imaginatively wide selection of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2016

SCHÜTZ Symphonie Sacrae I & III

These two ensembles are (along with Cantus Cölln) among the finest and most prolific exponents of Schütz on CD. With...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2016

SCHUBERT Winterreise

Jon Vickers’s 1983 Winterreise is simply hors concours. As with everything he sang, the Canadian tenor’s sincerity and depth of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2016

ROTH A Time to Dance

Composer Alec Roth may be UK-based and of Irish/German descent, but it’s America that provides the musical heritage for his...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2016

ROSENMÜLLER Marienvesper

In the early 1650s Johann Rosenmüller was promised that he would become the next Thomaskantor, but this plan was scuppered...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2016

PÄRT Organ and Choral Music

This highly impressive disc features a selection of Pärt’s choral music and his complete output for organ, somewhat oddly programmed...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2016

MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine

There is a celebratory atmosphere to this Vespers, recorded at a concert in the Royal Chapel at Versailles. And why...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2016

MAYR Requiem

German-born but Italian trained, Simon Mayr was in his early fifties when he turned in earnest to the composition of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2016

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