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JS BACH Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord Nos 1-6, BWV1014-1019

In these wonderful sonatas, the majority of movements are written as three-part counterpoint – the harpsichordist’s two hands plus the...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 01/2013

Sogno Barocco (Baroque Dream)

More than half of this 12-track disc is taken up by four laments, three of which last around 10 minutes....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2013

The Sea - Songs by Debussy, Fauré & Schubert

Rarely do you hear, even in the rarefied world of French mélodie and German Lieder, a baritone who sings with...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2013

The Leiden Choirbooks Vol III

This two-CD set is the third of a series devoted to a mid-16th-century group of six choirbooks preserved in the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013

Music from the Dow Partbooks

Robert Dow was a Londoner and an Oxford man who copied the partbooks named after him in the 1580s. It...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013

Canciones españolas

This recorded set effectively provides a history of the classics of 20th-century Spanish song in less than 70 minutes. Like...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2013

RODERICK WILLIAMS

For his Wigmore recital last February Roderick Williams devised a typically thoughtful, unclichéd programme: a clutch of songs from Wolf’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2013

WHITBOURN Annelies (chamber version)

It is difficult to look at the cover of the CD of a setting of excerpts from The Diary of...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2013

STRAUSS Complete Songs Vol 6

Hyperion’s complete coverage of the Richard Strauss songs (begun in Vol 1 with Christine Brewer – 6/05) has rightly received...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2013

SIBELIUS Saarella palaa (Fire on the Island)

My favourite collection of Sibelius choruses is ‘Songs for Male Voice Choir’, peerless singing by YL (Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat – the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2013

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