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STRAVINSKY Les Noces (1919) RAVEL Bolero

This account of Les noces marks the recording debut of the complete work in its 1919 instrumentation that was supposedly...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023

STRAUSS Four Last Songs (Rachel Willis-Sørensen)

For her second recording for Sony, Rachel Willis-Sørensen opts for Strauss, the composer with whom she is probably most closely...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2023

MOZART Requiem PAISIELLO Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon

‘Mozart Requiem*’, says the cover, the asterisk leading to the rubric ‘Version Paris, 1804’. Thirteen years after Mozart’s death and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023

GRIGORJEVA Music For Male-Voice Choir

The Ukrainian composer Galina Grigorjeva (b1962) has always had a natural affinity for the voice, and in particular choral writing....

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2023

BOULANGER, N & L Les Heures Claires (the Complete Songs)

Despite herself, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) is increasingly established as a composer. She was known to describe her youthful pieces as...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2023

BONDS Credo. Simon Bore the Cross

Margaret Bonds (1913 72) studied with Florence Price at high school (she also had tuition later from Roy Harris and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023

Motets of the Bach Family (Ensemble Polyharmonique. Tölzer Knabenchor)

Bach drafted an annotated genealogy of his extensive musical family in about 1735 and he had a collection of mostly...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2023

Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers (Rosalind Ventris)

Recent releases such as song-cycles by Robert Hugill (Navona, 1/18) or the Celtic-inspired miscellany ‘Between Earth and Sea’ (Tyˆ Cerdd)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023

Anthony Romaniuk: Perpetuum

Anthony Romaniuk follows up his brilliant ‘Bells’ (11/20) with ‘Perpetuum’, another stimulating and imaginatively curated programme of short pieces and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023

Chopin's Epoque: Piano Works By Gutmann, Filtsch, Mikuli, Fontan, Rothschild & Tellefsen

So all-embracing was Chopin’s influence on piano composition that few composers writing in the idiom (rather than that of Schumann,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

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