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BRAHMS Songbook, Vol 1 (Thomas Oliemans)

In a personal note accompanying this release, baritone Thomas Oliemans defends Brahms’s Romanzen aus ‘Die schöne Magelone’ as a true...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023

For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms

Hélène Grimaud’s new DG release, ‘For Clara’, is a bouquet of works by the two composers closest to Clara Wieck...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2023

BERLIOZ Les nuits d’été RAVEL Shéhérazade SAINT-SAËNS Mélodies persanes

Québécoise contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux is an inimitable performer, a real personality who delivers with an engaging commitment to text. These...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023

JC BACH; JS BACH Motets (Solomon’s Knot)

Spread over two discs, this new, beautifully presented recording features the complete surviving motets by JS Bach set in the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2023

JS BACH St John Passion (McGegan)

Next year is the tercentenary of the first performance of Bach’s St John Passion on Good Friday 1724, so expect...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2023

JS BACH Mass in B minor (Reize)

The questionable durability of Bach recordings from the Thomanerchor Leipzig is an interesting phenomenon. While the choir has always carried...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2023

JS BACH Judas - Arias and Recitatives (Benedikt Kristjansson)

Continuum is ‘a pool of instrumentalists and singers that [director and harpsichordist Elina Albach] can rely on, and that enables...

Reviewed in issue 10/2023

HAYDN 48 Piano Sonatas (Daniel-Ben Pienaar)

Having recorded complete Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert sonata cycles, perhaps it was just a matter of time until Daniel-Ben Pienaar...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2023

Jonas Frølund: Solo Alone and More

Here’s a novelty: an album of solo clarinet works, written – or arranged – for a variety of instruments and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023

Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum 2022

The annual disc of highlights from the previous year’s Festival of Piano Music Rarities from Husum has, as usual, arrived...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2023

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