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

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

Review of Sogno Barocco (Baroque Dream)

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

Review of The Sea - Songs by Debussy, Fauré & Schubert

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

Review of The Leiden Choirbooks Vol III

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

Review of Music from the Dow Partbooks

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

Review of Canciones españolas

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

Review of RODERICK WILLIAMS

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

Review of WHITBOURN Annelies (chamber version)

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

Review of STRAUSS Complete Songs Vol 6

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

Review of SIBELIUS Saarella palaa (Fire on the Island)

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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