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EÖTVÖS Tri Sestry (Three Sisters)

After more than 20 years of frequent performances it seems right for the Hungarian composer/conductor Peter Eötvös’s adapted setting of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020

CHARPENTIER La descente d’Orphée aux enfers (van Mechelen)

Both of these pieces have been recorded before, but this seems to be the first time that they have appeared...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2020

Une soirée chez Berlioz

The very linking of Berlioz and the guitar still sounds like an improbable answer to a fantasy quiz question. Was...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020

Passions: Venezia 1600-1750

Passions moved, passions shared, and the Passion of Christ on the Cross. This programme, a seemingly disparate selection of early...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2020

Lines Written During a Sleepless Night

Louise Alder’s recording presence moves into a considerably higher gear with this release – not her first recital disc but...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2020

Liederkreis: Decades – A Century of Song, Vol 4: 1840-1850

Schumann’s bittersweet Heine cycle of love frustrated and love betrayed heads the billing here. But as in earlier volumes of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2020

Camilla Tilling : Jugendstil

Like so many terms borrowed from the other arts, Jugendstil is not easy to pinpoint in music. This recital from...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2020

Mary Bevan : The Divine Muse

Mary Bevan is not just an exceptionally fine soprano. She’s also a superb actress, whether performing on the operatic stage...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2020

Ash Wednesday (Nethsingha)

There is a lot more ‘Evensong Live’ here than on the recent disc bearing that name from King’s College, Cambridge...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2020

Diana Damrau: Strauss

It’s nine years since Diana Damrau’s last album dedicated to Richard Strauss (3/11). That release saw her in in a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2020

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