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SCHUBERT Schwanengesang (Ian Bostridge)

Rest assured that Ian Bostridge is not nearly as wizened, and the late Lars Vogt wasn’t nearly so eagle-eyed, as...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2022

MONTEVERDI Selva Morale e Spirituale (Koetsveld)

Monteverdi’s monumental last anthology Selva morale e spirituale (Venice, 1641) contains nearly 40 different sacred and spiritual pieces. Most were...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2022

HILDEGARD 'Sacred Chants' (Grace Davidson)

Hildegard of Bingen is now by a massive margin the most often-recorded composer from the years before Byrd and Monteverdi...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2022

GERVAIS Grands Motets pour Louis XV

His opera Hypermnestre may be pronounced ‘the best of the Regency period’ by Grove and others, and the composer himself...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2022

BERLIOZ Requiem (Pappano)

Mixed blessings from this latest attempt to represent Berlioz’s ‘Great Mass’ effectively on disc. Pappano – who brought ‘his’ choir...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2022

Víkingur Ólafsson: From Afar

This is one of those albums that should catch you in the right mood and setting. If it doesn’t, then...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2022

VAN DIEREN Complete Music For Piano Solo (Christopher Guild)

That Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936) did not come into his own during the CD era is a little surprising. His...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2022

TELEMANN Fantasias for solo violin (Alina Ibragimova)

Alina Ibragimova brings us an excellent, eloquent interpretation of Telemann’s Fantasias for solo violin. The sound of Henry Wood Hall...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2022

SZYMANOWSKI Piano Works (Krystian Zimerman)

The match-up of a (if not the) leading Polish pianist with a (if not the) leading 20th-century Polish composer is...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2022

SCHUBERT Works for Solo Piano, Vol 6 (Barry Douglas)

Barry Douglas’s traversal of Schubert’s piano music has now reached the sixth instalment with the largest and last of the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2022

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