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SVIRIDOV Hymns and Prayers

Sviridov’s work has slowly been making its presence felt in the West. Choral works turn up in anthologies with some...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2015

SCHUBERT Winterreise

In a note accompanying this new Winterreise with Jan Van Elsacker, the fortepianist and musicologist Tom Beghin asks what yet...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2015

MOMPOU Songs

Thanks to Stephen Hough and Arcadi Volodos, Mompou’s piano music has had its moments of glory in the Gramophone Awards....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2015

HODDINOTT Song Cycles and Folksongs

Alun Hoddinott’s prolific output hasn’t fared well on disc in recent years so it’s good to welcome these two CDs...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2015

HANDEL Israel in Egypt

Handel’s first version of Israel in Egypt (1739) included a makeshift first part parodied from the anthem The ways of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2015

BRITTEN; SCHUBERT Songs

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Wigmore Hall Live and the label has plenty to celebrate. Its latest disc,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2015

BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Lieder

Schumann’s final songs, settings of poems attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots, were long routinely dismissed as the products of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2015

JS BACH Christmas Oratorio

Sigiswald Kuijken’s recent series of selected cantatas yielded many probing readings, especially in the more intimate works. These are the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2015

Rui Lopes: Through Time

This remarkable anthology comes from Rui Lopes, a highly musical and virtuoso bassoonist whom the English Chamber Orchestra accompany most...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 03/2015

Graffiti

Wergo’s series focusing on Ensemble Musikfabrik has now reached its eighth and arguably most fascinating instalment, not least for two...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015

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