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GIBBONS In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Vol 1

Don’t start playing this disc at the beginning. Skip straight to track 3 and Gibbons’s first In nomine a 5, and listen to...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2017

FAURÉ Requiem (Yale Schola Cantorum)

As if there weren’t enough versions of the Fauré Requiem around already, David Hill has made another, recorded here. Hill’s...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2017

EŠENVALDS The Doors of Heaven

One might have thought that trying to beat the Latvians at their own game was an impossible task, but this outstanding...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2017

COMPÈRE Music for the Duke of Milan

This is only the third anthology devoted to Loyset Compère, whose 500th death-anniversary falls next year; but it is a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2017

JS BACH Solo Cantatas for Bass

Both of Bach’s great solo bass cantatas reflect on the voyage of the soul, Ich habe genug essentially as a...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2017

Elsa Grether: Kaleidoscope

The French violinist Elsa Grether isn’t such a well-known name in the UK, but her recording of Bloch’s two violin...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2017

The Complete Josef Hofmann Vol 9

>‘Josef Hofmann was the greatest pianist I ever heard. I thought that when I was six. I still think that now.’ Charles Rosen, speaking...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2017

USTVOLSKAYA Piano Sonatas Nos 1 - 6

There are certainly worse ways of getting to know Galina Ustvolskaya’s unique brand of maximalist minimalism than through her six...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2017

Leif Ove Andsnes: Sibelius

It was the late Charles Rosen who insisted that the only way music becomes established as part of a living...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 11/2017

REICHA Rediscovered

Antoine (or Antonín, Anton) Reicha was one of music’s originals, with a cosmopolitan career tracing a trajectory from his native...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2017

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