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MAHLER Symphony No 4

In a pre-concert interview around the time of this recording in June 2014, Elizabeth Watts discussed how her academic background...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015

C & R SCHUMANN Works for Violin, Viola and Piano

Programmes of Robert and Clara Schumann are becoming increasingly popular these days, and Nurit Stark and Cédric Pescia, Israeli and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2015

LAWES The Royal Consort

William Lawes’s 10 Royal Consort sets (or suites) were probably composed for the Caroline court during the 1630s. Unswerving royalist...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015

Sol Gabetta: The Chopin Album

The performance of the Sonata is on a large scale, with generous, full tone and a vivid, resonant recording. Gabetta...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 1 & 14

Audite’s recording is close if not claustrophobic, close enough to differentiate the character of the four Italian instruments as well...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015

Music of the Realm: Tudor Music for Men's Voices

There’s a very particular sound to this recording and it’s one you can trace partially back to Delphian’s 2009 disc...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015

Italia

South-West German Radio’s ‘country’ series continues with a varied selection of late 19th- and 20th-century Italian choral music. Given the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2015

English Hymn Anthems

I suppose there must be choirs of equal merit to King’s College but none has the unassailable advantage of making...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015

Bror Magnus Tødenes: Remembering Jussi

This first recital by a handsome young artist reclaimed from rock‘n’roll by crusading voice teachers will already be a hit...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2015

SCHUBERT Die Schöne Müllerin

Now in his mid-thirties, Pavol Breslik has made his name primarily as a Mozart and Donizetti tenor. On this showing...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015

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