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BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Lieder

Schumann’s final songs, settings of poems attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots, were long routinely dismissed as the products of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2015

JS BACH Christmas Oratorio

Sigiswald Kuijken’s recent series of selected cantatas yielded many probing readings, especially in the more intimate works. These are the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2015

Rui Lopes: Through Time

This remarkable anthology comes from Rui Lopes, a highly musical and virtuoso bassoonist whom the English Chamber Orchestra accompany most...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 03/2015

Graffiti

Wergo’s series focusing on Ensemble Musikfabrik has now reached its eighth and arguably most fascinating instalment, not least for two...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015

SALINAS Danzas Peregrinas GOSS Guitar Concerto EDWARDS Arafura Dances

Those of us who remember John Williams’s frequent collaborations with the Chilean group Inti-Illimani will recall the energy and obvious...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2015

WALTON Symphony No 2. Viola Concerto

This latest Nimbus...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2015

VIEUXTEMPS Cello Concertos YSAŸE Meditation

The sixth volume of Hyperion’s ‘Romantic Cello Concerto’ series lights upon two works by the celebrated 19th-century Belgian violinist Henri...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2015

READ THOMAS Music for Strings

The association between Augusta Read Thomas and Nimbus reaches a fourth volume devoted largely to her music for strings. The...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra. Till Eulenspiegels

Less than a year since the release of Andris Nelsons’s CBSO recording of Also sprach Zarathustra (Orfeo, 7/14; Philip Clark’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2015

SOLBERG Orchestral, Choral and Organ Music

Norwegian composer, conductor and organist Leif Solberg celebrated his 100th birthday on November 18 last year and this CD, recorded...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015

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