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'Masabane'
It’s her party and she’ll sing what she wants to. And have a ball doing so. In her first solo...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2025
Sonya Yoncheva: George
Sonya Yoncheva’s new album, her first for Naïve, examines the life and world of George Sand through the work of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2025
Fatma Said: Lieder
Fatma Said might look out alone from the cover of her new album, ‘Lieder’, but as a quick look through...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2025
In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem Vol 3
The third and final volume of ‘In Chains of Gold’ is devoted to Tomkins and his obscurer contemporaries. As in...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2025
Angel of Peace
At the heart of this album – designed to accompany The Sixteen’s 2025 Choral Pilgrimage – sits music by Arvo...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 04/2025
G WILLIAMS Missa Cambrensis
The Grace Williams revival continues apace with this very significant premiere recording of her largest work for the concert hall....
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 04/2025
SHOSTAKOVICH Suite on Verses of Michelangelo. October
Matthias Goerne and Mikko Franck are embarked on a series of Shostakovich recordings for the Alpha label of which this...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2025
SCHUMANN 'Twilight'
By now, Ian Bostridge’s followers have approximate expectations of any new recording, this one being Schumann songs written mostly in...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2025
SCHUBERT 'Licht und Schatten’
'Light and Shadow’, the title of this second album in Samuel Hasselhorn’s Schubert 200 series, could apply to virtually any...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2025
PACHELBEL Magnificat II
Pachelbel composed at least 11 imaginatively multifaceted concertato treatments of the Magnificat. These two fine settings probably date from his...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2025
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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