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BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3

Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang show how to interpret Brahms’s intentions, their expression precisely tailored to the expressive curves clearly...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2014

DOWLAND The Art of Melancholy

Of all the things that could have emerged from last year’s Dowland anniversary, perhaps for many the most devoutly to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014

The Tudors at Prayer

William Mundy’s Vox Patris caelestis is probably his most famous piece (I reviewed The Sixteen’s most recent account in April),...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2014

Mortale, che pensi?

Lirone player Erin Headley (co-founder of Tragicomedia) now has her own group, Atalante, who here present the third volume of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014

Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau

This follows the pattern of Sabine Devieilhe’s recital ‘Le grand théâtre de l’amour’ (Erato, 2/14) by fashioning a sequence of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014

Itziar Galdos: Colores

This is an original and inventive anthology of songs by Spanish composers, but avoiding the Castilian language, presenting instead works...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2014

WARLOCK Choral works

A master miniaturist, Peter Warlock is at his best in the songs – both solo and choral – that make...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2014

STRAVINSKY Oedipus Rex. Apollon Musagète

Anyone familiar with the old Philips recording (6/55) of Stravinsky conducting his Oedipus rex, and Jean Cocteau summoning the audience...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2014

STRAUSS Lieder

In his introduction to the booklet Thomas Hampson says that he wanted to mark Strauss’s 150th anniversary by offering a...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Six Romances. Suite on Poems by Michelangelo

Shostakovich’s songs continue to lag behind the rest of his output in terms of their representation on recordings and in...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2014

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