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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Mystical Songs and Other British Choral Anthems

Here’s yet another fresh slant on the glorious Five Mystical Songs to mark Vaughan Williams’s 150th birthday, this time with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2023

MUHLY The Street

Having provided the acoustic space for Parker Ramsay’s impressive debut album – the Goldberg Variations in his own arrangement for...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2023

MACHAUT Remede de Fortune

Several difficulties arise in recording Machaut’s Remede de Fortune. The first is that it is basically a narrative, over 4000...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2023

BERLIOZ Les Nuits d'été. Harold en Italie

Hector Berlioz’s six songs (1840-41) setting the poetry of his friend Théophile Gautier were published together merely for the sake...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2023

BABBITT Works for Treble Voice & Piano

On this welcome complete collection of Milton Babbitt’s music for high voice and piano, the signal work for me is...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 01/2023

Rachel Podger: Tutta sola

Since making standard-setting recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas (7/99, 12/99), Rachel Podger has returned intermittently to the solo violin...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2023

George Xiaoyuan Fu: Mirrors

It is very much the fashion for young pianists to record multi-movement suites by a single composer and intersperse pieces...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023

Una Bourne: Australian Recording Pioneer – HMV Recordings 1914-1926

To those names who, early on, represented Australian musical talent abroad, the soprano Nellie Melba (1861-1931) and pianist-composer Percy Grainger...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2023

SPRATLAN Invasion - Music 'and Art for Ukraine'

Just as 9/11 prompted a wave of commemorative works, so is the Russian invasion of Ukraine now doing. Lewis Spratlan’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023

MOZART Piano Sonatas K279-284 & 309 (Angela Hewitt)

With this double album of the first seven canonic sonatas, Angela Hewitt extends her foray into Mozart begun in 2011...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2023

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