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HANDEL Music for Queen Caroline

The most amiable of Britain’s early Hanoverian monarchs seems to have been Caroline of Ansbach (1683-1737), wife (and cousin) of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2015

EŠENVALDS Northern Lights and other Choral Works

Born in 1977, Latvian Eriks Ešenvalds is principally known as a composer of choral music. This album commemorates a two-year...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2015

PIAZZOLLA Escualo. Histoire du Tango. Angel Suite

Piazzolla’s music is remarkably open to arrangement, its vibrant tango nuevo rhythms and clean sonorities transferring convincingly to most instruments....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015

STENHAMMAR String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

The Stenhammars conclude the first-ever complete cycle of their namesake’s quartets on disc with characteristically energetic and well-explored readings of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015

MACHAUT The Dart of Love

This second Machaut recording by The Orlando Consort for Hyperion seems to me a return to their best form. Much...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2015

A Painted Tale

The year has barely begun and already here’s a disc to remember come all those end-of-year round-ups. Young American tenor...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2015

VALLS Missa Scala Aretina

Francesc Valls (c1671-1747) was an adoptive Catalan who spent most of his career as the chapel-master of Barcelona Cathedral. Today...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2015

LISZT Complete Songs Vol 3

If Liszt was not the greatest of 19th-century song-writers, he was arguably the most exploratory and eclectic. Spanning five decades...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2015

FRANCK Father of the Organ Symphony

As with previous deluxe issues dedicated to Aristide Cavaillé-Coll and Charles-Marie Widor, Fugue State Films has (through another crowd-funding campaign)...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2015

DOHNÁNYI Complete Solo Piano Music Vol 3

This is the third volume of Martin Roscoe’s complete Dohnányi solo piano music cycle, and with a superb disc of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2015

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