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HEGGIE Three Song Cycles

Best known for his operas, Jake Heggie is also a prolific writer of songs (over 250 to date), many of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2014

SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concertos

And still the Saint Saëns discs keep coming. This new one, embracing the two cello concertos together with La muse...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2014

Alice Coote: Handel Arias

To plan a recital revolving around the most famous trilogies of arias from Ariodante, Alcina and Hercules might seem an...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014

Lisa Batiashvili: Bach

For her first Bach recording, Lisa Batiashvili has chosen not to run through all the concertos or the solo violin...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2014

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

The second volume of John Axelrod’s ‘Brahms Beloved’ series again has Brahms’s orchestral monuments alongside Clara Schumann’s genteel songs that...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014

Serenissima: Music from Renaissance Europe

This recording was inspired by the Rose Consort’s recent acquisition of a ‘chest’ of six viols (treble, two tenor, two...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2014

Perla Barocca

It would be hard to imagine a more enticing introduction to the delights of 17th-century Italian violin music. The composers...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2014

FAURÉ Lydia's Vocalises

During 1906 Fauré composed vocalises for sight-singing tests at the Paris Conservatoire, where singing of art-song had just been made...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2014

FRANCK Cello Sonata SAINT-SAËNS Cello Sonata No 2

Julian Steckel and Paul Rivinius’s 2011 release of cello-piano works by Fauré, Poulenc, Debussy and Boulanger was a vividly programmed...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2014

American Chamber Music

Most of this music is well represented on CD but the rarity is Bernstein’s early Piano Trio. He wrote it...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2014

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