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Dark Velvet: An Autobiography in Music

Music often means more when shaped by personal experience, as this album of compositions for solo and duo combinations performed...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW22

WOLF Orchesterlieder. Penthesilea

Hugo Wolf’s songs in their original piano versions are marvels of concision and compositional precision, but, as CPO’s long and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW22

PEDRO I OF BRAZIL Te Deum. Credo

Like many monarchs, King Pedro I of Brazil (1798-1834) received a fine musical education, in his case from Marcos Portugal...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW22

LUSITANO Motets

This will be a revelation to many. Vicente Lusitano’s name is familiar to specialists of the Renaissance as a key...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW22

KRIGUL Liquid Turns

Hard on the heels of two orchestral pieces performed by the Estonian Festival Orchestra (Alpha, 9/22) – the first review...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW22

HAYDN Symphony 103. Theresienmesse

Harry Christophers continues his exploration of Haydn’s late music with a pairing of the penultimate symphony and antepenultimate Mass. The...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW22

HANDEL Salve Regina (Julie Roset)

Glaring musicological errors proliferate in Ricercar’s booklet note and blurb. The truth is that nobody knows when or why Handel...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW22

HANDEL Coronation Anthems

‘A divine surprise’, Hervé Niquet calls this music, going on to imply that he hasn’t encountered Handel’s Coronation Anthems before....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW22

Songs of William Busch

Here’s a welcome follow-up to Lyrita’s own bold coupling (2/08) of those two substantial concertos for piano and cello (premiered...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW22

BRAHMS Lieder (Anna Lucia Richter)

Every Brahms lieder recital is bound to be a new journey into the half-lights of the composer’s psyche. But for...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW22

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