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SCHUBERT Swansong (Tomlinson)

I was a little guarded perhaps in my reaction to Signum’s release of ‘Winter Journey’ (5/18), and for ‘Swan Song’...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2018

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Kožená, Skelton)

It’s amazing to think that Simon Rattle’s previous recording of Mahler’s late, great symphony of song dates from over two...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2018

LISZT Complete Songs Vol 5

Julius Drake’s survey of Liszt’s complete songs reaches its fifth volume with a recital by Allan Clayton, carefully tailored to...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018

JOSQUIN Gaudeamus; L'ami Baudichon

The musical importance of Josquin Desprez (c1450/55-1521) cannot be overstated, yet several of his Masses are still not well represented...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2018

FINNISSY Choralvorspiele. Andersen-Lierderkreis

Mark Knoop (as soloist in the Choralvorspiele) and soprano Juliet Fraser team up in two recent cycles by Michael Finnissy,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2018

ENESCU Strigoii (Bebeşelea)

Somewhere in the mists of legend, but not far from the eastern reaches of the Danube, a king enlists a...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2018

ELGAR The Hills of Dreamland: Orchestral Songs

Only last January I was heaping praise upon Roderick Williams’s distinguished advocacy of Elgar’s orchestral songs (Chandos, coupled with Andrew...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2018

Aimer et mourir – danses et mélodies

Robin Ticciati’s beautiful but uneven first disc with Berlin’s Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, pairing Debussy with Fauré, was released in October 2017...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018

CALDARA Maddalena al piedi do Cristo

Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo was probably composed for Caldara’s native Venice in about 1697 98, perhaps for the Oratorian...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2018

BERNSTEIN Wonderful Town (Rattle)

I’ve always been slightly puzzled as to why Simon Rattle (and subsequently Mark Elder) chose to anoint this particular show...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018

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