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MONTEVERDI Il Terzo Libro de Madrigali (Alessandrini)

'Prima le parole, dopo la musica’ – we all know the score when it comes to Monteverdi. But, as Rinaldo...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2021

BRUCKNER; M HAYDN Motets

Of particular interest here are the motets by Michael Haydn, recordings of which remain comparatively scarce. The earliest of the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2021

Sandrine Piau: Clair-Obscur

On paper this new album from French soprano Sandrine Piau looks enticing enough. Listening to it, though, one realises quite...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2021

JS BACH 'Soli Deo Gloria'

Two church cantatas here for the weeks after Trinity: No 21 composed for Weimar in 1714 and No 76 from...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2021

ARNESEN Holy Spirit Mass

For several decades the North American choral scene has been an important market for British composers such as Rutter, Carter,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2021

A Legend Reborn: The Voice of King’s

The chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, is known around the world, in the words of David Briggs, who narrates this...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2021

Clare Hammond: Variations

In a relatively short time, Clare Hammond has established herself as a pianist of impressive abilities who avidly explores repertory...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2021

Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy (Tomer Lev)

Le tombeau de Claude Debussy is in effect a joint memorial published two years after the composer’s death in the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2021

YSAŸE Six Sonatas For Solo Violin (Kerson Leong)

‘Perhaps the most important contribution to the solo violin repertoire since the writings of Bach and Paganini’, writes Kerson Leong...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2021

STANCHINSKY Piano Music (Peter Jablonski; Witold Wilczek)

When Alexey Stanchinsky died in mysterious circumstances in 1914 at the age of 26, he left behind a remarkable body...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2021

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