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SCHUMANN Carnaval BEETHOVEN 32 Variations

Beethoven’s chaconne-like 32 Variations in C minor and Nielsen’s Op 32 Chaconne make for interesting bedfellows. But how do these single-minded structures relate...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017

JS BACH Organ Works Vol 4

When in the foothills of a grand Bach project, selection of works can have a significant bearing on the balance and shape...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2017

JS BACH English Suite No 2. Overture in the French Style

After mixed recitals featuring Chopin (with whom she has been associated since winning the 2010 Chopin Competition), Yulianna Avdeeva now turns her...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017

Music for the Queen of Heaven

The Marian Consort made its debut recording for the Delphian label in 2011 with an acclaimed programme of ‘Music of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2017

Lux in tenebris

Two sets of Lamentations and a penitential cantata bring plenty of darkness to this disc of sacred works from 18th-century Naples....

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017

In Dulci Jubilo

This latest exploration of Buxtehude and his circle from Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices is a joyful, festive...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2017

Barbara

The great French singer-songwriter Barbara died 20 years ago this November at the age of 67. Alexandre Tharaud, then in his late...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Gerhaher)

While Christian Gerhaher’s 2003 recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin doesn’t have English translations of the poem texts (RCA, 2/04),...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2017

SCHUBERT Songs Vol 3 (Bostridge)

The third volume of Ian Bostridge’s leisurely Schubert series for Wigmore Hall Live is devoted to songs dealing with longing – urgent,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017

Poldowski Reimagined

The debut album of Ensemble 1904, founded by the pianist David Jackson to explore the lesser-known 20th-century French and British chamber repertory,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017

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