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DURUFLÉ Requiem POULENC Lenten Motets

In July 2022, having established themselves in the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache, the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge under...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024

BEYDTS Melodies & songs (Cyrille Dubois)

Following on from their Gramophone Award-winning Fauré survey (8/22), Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës head into hitherto uncharted territory with...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024

JS BACH St Matthew Passion (arr Mendelssohn)

The story of how the 20-year-old Mendelssohn revived the unknown St Matthew Passion by Bach at a series of performances...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024

ALFANO Songs

Franco Alfano is best known these days for his completion of Puccini’s Turandot but he was a prolific composer in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024

The Journey of Orpheus; Andreas Staier: Méditation

These two German Baroque keyboard recitals are strikingly similar in both conception and programme. Zsombor Tóth-Vajna uses the Orpheus myth...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024

Eternity

This is the fourth release by the Cologne-based husband-and-wife piano duo team of Gülru Ensari and Herbert Schuch. As Schuch...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024

Schubert + Brahms 2 (Can Çakmur)

If Can Çakmur’s recordings so far have shown anything, it’s that this rising star of the Turkish piano scene has...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2024

PÄRT Diagrams: Complete Piano Music (Tähe-Lee Liiv)

Arvo Pärt’s piano works may not rate as highly in his oeuvre as the choral settings or symphonic works but...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024

FINNIS 'Youth'

Those au fait with the music of Edmund Finnis via releases such as ‘The Air, Turning’ (NMC, 4/19) and ‘Shades’...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024

FAURÉ Complete Music for Solo Piano (Lucas Debargue)

Lucas Debargue is an artist who likes to go his own way, as witness his terrifically characterful Scarlatti sonatas (11/19),...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024

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