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Azahar

The premise of this intriguing project makes a certain intuitive sense. Stravinsky’s Mass was composed as a response to Machaut’s,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2017

SCHUBERT Winterreise

The first question, of course, is whether or not Winterreise really needs anything to accompany it, especially when it is...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2017

SAINT-SAËNS Mélodies avec orchestre

Though issued by Alpha, this disc effectively complements Aparté’s recent survey of Saint-Saëns’s song collections with piano (3/17). Mélodies persanes,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2017

ORR Songs

The finely crafted, urgently communicative music of Glasgow-born Buxton Orr (1924 97) has not yet received due recognition, so all...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2017

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Kaufmann)

When you are as big a star as Jonas Kaufmann, when your instrument is fach-defying and your choices in terms...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2017

JOUBERT South of the Line

Seven first recordings ping out of Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir’s celebration of the composer, 90 this year, associated with the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2017

HONEGGER Le roi David

These Swiss forces present Honegger’s first, 1923 revision of Le roi David that maintained the 17-strong instrumental ensemble of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2017

GUYOT Te Deum laudamus

The ensemble Cinquecento – resident in Vienna but international in their personnel – have made something of a career by...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2017

FELDMAN Three Voices

Morton Feldman’s 1982 Three Voices for female voice accompanied by two pre-recorded tracks relayed through a pair of giant loudspeakers...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2017

COUPERIN L’apothéose de Lully. Leçons de Ténèbres

Having written recently about Christophe Rousset’s recording of Couperin’s L’apothéose de Lully with Stéphane Degout (Aparté, 12/16), I was surprised...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2017

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