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MAHLER Lieder (Christiane Karg)

For her first solo album for Harmonia Mundi, German soprano Christiane Karg turns to Mahler, joined at the piano by...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2020

JOSQUIN Masses (Phillips)

This ends a hugely enjoyable project begun in 1986, not originally envisaged as a complete cycle of Josquin’s Masses but...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2020

HAYDN The Creation (Antonini)

Haydn’s joyous celebration of an idyllic, prelapsarian world seems particularly poignant in an age when our guardianship of the planet...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

DUSSEK Messe Solemnelle

The Solemnal Mass of Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) appears to have been composed for the name day in 1811 of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020

BRITTEN A Ceremony of Carols (Ross)

Hit play on this new recording of Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols and you’ll get a shock. Benjamin Britten may...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2020

BRAHMS Complete Songs Vol 10 (Sophie Rennert)

‘Springing like Minerva fully armed from the head of Jove’ was Robert Schumann’s euphoric verdict when the 20-year-old Brahms visited...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

JS BACH Redemption (Anna Prohaska)

This is an album about music and coronavirus. Anna Prohaska, it would seem, had been contemplating a disc of extracts...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2020

David Hill: From the Ground Up

How impoverished the organist’s repertory would be without that humble but ever so effective musical form, the Passacaglia. From the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2020

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: Beyond Perfection

In 1992 Dag Freyer and the late Syrthos J Dreher set out to make a film about Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020

Anthony Romaniuk: Bells

Playlist culture dominates today’s piano scene, with more and more artists favouring thematic or conceptual programmes from short stand-alone pieces...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020

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