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JS BACH Cantatas for Soprano

Bach’s dozen or so solo cantatas are all memorable for their vocal expression and refined instrumental commentary but here we...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2017

Volodos Plays Brahms

This is one of those discs where a word count is a strange thing. For it needs only four: Go...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017

PERGOLESI Stabat Mater JS BACH Cantatas Nos 54 & 170

The last few years have been a period of extremes for Pergolesi’s Stabat mater. High-profile recordings have veered wildly between...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2017

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 6

Haydn’s reputation as a competent pianist but no wizard is surely correct; he appears never to have stepped forwards to...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2017

BRAHMS String Sextets

It’s been some years since we’ve had a disc of Brahms’s sextets as thoroughly satisfying as this one, recorded live...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Fischer)

Here for once is a Mahler symphony release that feels different from the outset. Jared Sacks and his colleagues at...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2017

ANTHEIL Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

In 1926 Aaron Copland declared that George Antheil ‘possesses the greatest gifts of any American now writing’. Ten years later,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2017

Shai Wosner: Impromptu

Lest anyone harbour reservations about Shai Wosner’s gifts as an imaginative programmer, this CD should lay them to rest. Using...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2017

STANFORD 38 Preludes from the two sets of Twenty-Four Preludes in all the Keys

Towards the end of his life Stanford wrote two sets of 24 Preludes for piano boasting impeccable craft and characteristic...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2017

SCHUMANN Fantasie. Kreisleriana

Jean-Philippe Collard’s discography is weighted toward his compatriots, including much-lauded Fauré and Saint Saëns, but during the 1970s he made...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2017

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