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Love and Longing

Ravel’s Shéhérazade and the five Rückert songs by Mahler offer the more conventional pleasures on this disc but Madgalena Kožená’s...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2012

RAUTAVAARA Cello Concerto No 2. Percussion Concerto

As three works are listed on this superbly recorded new Ondine release, buyers may be surprised to learn that, in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2012

A Year at Winchester and York

These are the first two CDs in Regent’s ‘A Year at…’ series. Each disc takes a liturgical and musical journey...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 05/2012

Tune they Musicke to thy Hart

We are enjoined by this fine recital to bring nuance to distinctions between sacred and secular, and what we sometimes...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2012

A Song of Farewell: Music of Mourning & Consolation

Any disc subtitled ‘Music of Mourning & Consolation’ is not going to be a bundle of laughs. But Paul McCreesh...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012

Los Pajaros Perdidos

‘The Lost Birds’ is how this title translates into English; couple that with its subtitle, ‘The South American Project’, and...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2012

Cesena

Right from the start this disc sets out to shake preconceptions. The sleeve information is folded within a kind of...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2012

Il Canto della Sirena

‘The Song of the Siren’ runs the rubric, though the voices in this three-disc set of Neapolitan Baroque songs and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2012

Being Beauteous

Anybody who has heard Anu Komsi in Saariaho’s remarkable Leino Songs, or other works written for her, will want to...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2012

VASKS Choral works

For their second disc of Vasks’s choral music on the Finnish Ondine label, the compellingly brilliant Latvian Radio Choir concentrate...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2012

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