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JS BACH Christmas Oratorio

The Christmas Oratorio has proved strangely resistant to the theories of recent decades concerning Bach’s performing forces. The only previous...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2016

Transcendental

There must be others but I have only ever come across one release with these four sets of studies: an...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2016

Europakonzert 2016

May 1, 2016, will probably go down as a red-letter day in the affairs of Røros, the remote former copper-mining...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2016

Ian Bostridge: Shakespeare Songs

Nearly 20 years after Ian Bostridge made his recording debut with a delicate, rhapsodic collection of English song (‘The English...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2016

SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder

Just a year after Hyperion released its Gramophone Award-winning recording of Gurrelieder, here comes another, from another British label. And...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2016

JS BACH Goldberg Variations

The first thing you notice about this remarkable recording is the unusual warmth and tonal vibrancy of the harpsichord, built...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2016

Fin de siècle

Dive straight in with Henri Büsser’s Appassionato. It leaps right out at you, Lawrence Power’s viola sweeping exuberantly upwards over...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2

Another ‘Rach 2’ dropping on to the doormat makes the heart rather sink. Except…the pianist is the wonderfully gifted Alexandre...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2016

Rhapsody

Mahler once described Chabrier’s España (1883) as ‘the beginning of modern music’. Although that assertion may sound absurd to our...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2016

ZIMMERMANN Symphony in One Movement

Over half a century since undertaking the first recording of Die Soldaten, Wergo has done full service to the memory...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2016

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