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FAURÉ 'Fauré et ses poètes'

The French baritone Marc Mauillon progresses from one musical time warp to another here. He is a distinctive presence in...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2020

EŠENVALDS There will come soft rains

The Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds (b1977) is noted for the wide range of his compositions, which span opera (The Immured...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2020

Clairières: Songs By Lili and Nadia Boulanger

Nicholas Phan recently opened a Philadelphia Chamber Music Society recital with a Nadia Boulanger-authored song I never knew existed, ‘Soir...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2020

BLACKFORD Pietà (Amy Dickson)

The Stabat mater – Mary’s grief upon seeing her son crucified on the Cross – has received more than its...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2020

BERNARDI Lux Aeterna. Ein Salzburger Requiem

Stefano Bernardi (c1577-1637) held eminent musical posts in his native Verona but for about a decade he was the first...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020

BEETHOVEN Songs (Matthias Goerne)

With so many detractors, Beethoven Lieder are bound to acquire revisionist defenders, the latest being Matthias Goerne, whose status among...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2020

JS BACH St John Passion (Rademann)

Gaechinger Cantorey, the choir and orchestra of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, opt for the 1749 revision of the St John...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020

Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions (Alessandro Taverna)

My colleague Harriet Smith wrote a mixed yet accurate and fair-minded review for Alessandro Taverna’s previous live CD recorded at...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

WIDOR Organ Symphonies Vol 1 – Nos 1 & 2 (Wolfgang Rübsam)

The booklet with this first disc in the Naxos cycle of Widor organ symphonies informs us that the restored 1928...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2020

WHITE Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (Jonathan Powell)

The sonatas of John White – 180 and counting – rank among the largest and most varied corpuses of piano...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2020

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