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MONDONVILLE Grands Motets

Three years after moving to Paris, the violinist Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville began his long association with the Concert Spirituel...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2022

LISZT 'Der du von dem Himmel bist'

Like Britten and Shostakovich a century later, Liszt tended to use fewer notes the older he got. Denouncing his early...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2022

JANÁCEK Glagolitic Mass. Sinfonietta (Letonja)

You know immediately that this is going to be a memorable recording from the crisp clarity of the instrumental sound...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2022

HUGHES 'Precious Things - Choral Music'

This sparkling recording brings together an a cappella feast of short choral pieces composed during the past decade by the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2022

JS BACH Mass in B minor (Jacobs)

There are few major choral works that ‘period’ directors tend to revisit in the studio as regularly as the Mass...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2022

At Home with Hugo Alfvén: Songs & Piano Pieces

Recordings of Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960) mostly concentrate on his larger-scale works: five symphonies, several cantatas, and orchestral works, including the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

Can Çakmur: Without Borders

Pianophiles will probably remember Can Çakmur’s exquisite Schubert-Liszt Schwanengesang along with the four Valses oubliées from just a couple of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2022

This is America: An Anthology 2020-21 (Johnny Gandelsman)

This is potentially one of the important recordings of our time. Violinist Johnny Gandelsman presents 24 new works by American...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 08/2022

Oda Voltersvik: Neo

The young Norwegian pianist Oda Voltersvik has harnessed together four effectively contrasted representatives of the 20th-century Russian piano tradition. Admittedly...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2022

Bor Zuljan: Il liuto del principe

Is Bor Zuljan tackling yet another melancholic genius? Almost. Where the Slovenian lutenist’s debut solo recording was devoted exclusively to...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2022

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