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SCHOENBERG; BARTÓK Piano Concertos

For Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto to sound effective the listener must be able to feel utterly at home in the work,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

J B BACH Overtures

How many careless shoppers, I wonder, will buy this disc thinking it contains the four Ouvertures (or Orchestral Suites) of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2017

FAGERLUND; AHO Bassoon Concertos

Sebastian Fagerlund’s violin concerto Darkness in Light mightily impressed me on disc (5/15) and his no less involving bassoon concerto...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2017

VERDELOT; GANASSI Madrigals

Like so many 16th-century instrumental tutors, Sylvestro Ganassi’s La Fontegara (1535) begins by stating that all musical instruments are inferior...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2017

Heracleitus

The latest release from the admirable English Music Festival’s in-house label is a recital of songs and chamber music by...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2017

Renée Fleming: Distant Light

The disc’s charismatic title comes from a line in the first song of The Strand Settings – evocative in its...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2017

TYBERG Masses

When the Jewish Austrian composer Marcel Tyberg was arrested by the Gestapo at his Italian home in 1944 it did...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2017

In the Stream of Life: Sibelius Songs

Even in the English-speaking world, where Sibelius has mostly enjoyed a high reputation, his vocal music remains undervalued. The language...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2017

Ladies Only - Love and Lament (Schubert)

This is a disc I rather wish I weren’t reviewing. There’s a fine line between artlessness and blandness in Schubert,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2017

MEYERBEER Songs Vol 2

Released some five years after the first volume, this second Naxos disc of Meyerbeer songs presents settings of poetry in...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2017

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