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GRIEG; KÖRVITS; SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas (Duo Gazzana)

This feels – to use a footballing analogy – like an album of two halves. In the first, we have...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023

DELIUS; SMYTH String Quartets

Among Delius’s earliest works from the late 1880s, when he was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory, was a String...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2023

CILEA Adriana Lecouvreur (Harding)

Theatre as artifice is the dominant idea behind Frederic Wake-Walker’s production of Adriana Lecouvreur – appropriately enough, perhaps, for an...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2023

A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams

Roderick Williams is one of Britain’s finest exponents of English song, yet one forgets that he is also a composer...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2023

PASCOE Secular Requiem

Since graduating from the University of Bristol (where he studied composition with Derek Bourgeois), Russell Pascoe (b1959) has made a...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2023

MONTEVERDI Madrigals Book 7

Over some 30 years Rinaldo Alessandrini has recorded and re-recorded Monteverdi’s madrigals, combining and colliding them every which way. Most...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2023

HANDEL Eternal Heaven

There is no shortage of Handel aria albums around, but not all take as much care in the planning as...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2023

Vadym Kholodenko: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

Beethoven’s early Variations on a Russian Dance from the ballet Das Waldmädchen by Wranitzky has rarely been played better. Vadym...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023

MARTINŮ Cello Sonatas (Johannes Moser)

What interpretative variety Bohuslav Martinů’s cello sonatas inspire – from the intimate, understated eloquence of Josef Chuchro and Josef Hála...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2023

GUÐMUNDSSON Windbells

This is the third album to profile Icelandic composer Hugi Gumundsson, with a fourth on the way in 2023 from...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2023

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