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The Secret Fauré

‘Rare Fauré’ might be a better, if not entirely accurate title for this attractive disc, in which Ivor Bolton conducts...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018

ELGAR The Music Makers. The Spirit of England (Davis)

Both soloist and conductor have already given us notable versions of The Music Makers – for Naxos (12/06) and Teldec/Warner...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2018

DOWLAND First Book of Songes or Ayres (Grace Davidson)

‘Semper Dowland, semper dolens’, John Dowland famously punned, but the composer’s First Booke of Songes or Ayres couldn’t be further...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018

BRIAN The Vision of Cleopatra

Havergal Brian’s cantata The Vision of Cleopatra (1907) is the most ambitious work of his earliest period, ie before the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018

JS BACH Oboe Concertos & Cantatas

Xenia Löffler’s performances on a 2014 disc of assorted Venetian concertos (10/14) from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2018

ANDERSON Heaven is Shy of Earth; The Comedy of Change

This excellent CD fills significant gaps in the Anderson discography. At the same time it reminds us of the huge...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2018

Daniel Müller-Schott: Trip to Russia

‘I saw the lilacs still in full bloom, the grass still long, and the roses just starting to blossom.’ Tchaikovsky’s...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2018

Cinema

Theodor Adorno once said that ‘every visit to the cinema leaves me, against all my vigilance, stupider and worse’. Despite...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2018

The English Concert

This disc is designed as a concerto showcase for four of The English Concert’s regular members, and does a very...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2018

A ZIMMERMANN Symphonies (Ehrhardt)

Silesian-born Anton Zimmermann (1741 81) spent much of his short life as director of the court orchestra in Pressburg (now...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2018

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