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PARRY Prometheus Unbound

Chandos already has a Parry catalogue to reckon with, including several of the secular choral works directed by Matthias Bamert....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2023

Infinite Voyage

The Emerson Quartet’s farewell to recording on their retirement after a distinguished 40-year career is strikingly different from their Beethoven-Schubert...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2023

JANÁCEK Katya Kabanova (Hrůša)

Conducted by Jakub Hrůša, Barrie Kosky’s modern-dress staging of Katya Kabanova caused a considerable stir in Salzburg last year. An...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2023

You Did Not Want For Joy

This is a delight of a disc. Short and slight – pared back to the essentials of both texture and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023

Sirens' Song

One would have to travel very far to find an album of British a cappella (mostly) music as beautifully sung...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2023

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Konstantin Krimmel)

In his booklet note for this excellent new recording of Die schöne Müllerin, Konstantin Krimmel muses on the suicide figures...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023

RODGERS Oklahoma! (Wilson)

This is important. Oklahoma! was a big moment – perhaps the big moment – in musical theatre’s ‘coming of age’....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2023

FAURÉ Nocturnes & Barcarolles (Marc-André Hamelin)

To whichever composer Marc-André Hamelin turns his (amazing) hand(s), he reinvents himself, chameleon-like, to convince you that he is the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2023

From Mannheim to Berlin - Sonatas for Violoncello Piccolo

This is simply lovely. The violoncello piccolo is slightly smaller than the normal instrument and tuned a fifth higher; the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2023

LISZT Faust Symphony (Karabits)

Following his earlier recordings of Liszt’s Sardanapalo (2/19) and A Dante Symphony (4/20) for Audite, Kirill Karabits now turns his...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2023

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