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JOSQUIN; BAULDEWEYN Masses

As one of the most important accounts of Josquin’s Masses in recent decades, Peter Phillips’s albums with The Tallis Scholars...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2019

GRIEG Lyric Music (Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn)

As with September’s Recording of the Month (from the pianist Denis Kozhukhin), Grieg’s Lyric Pieces are once more brought out...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2019

JANÁCEK The Diary of One Who Disappeared DVORÁK Biblical Songs

Only months after Nicky Spence’s superb new recording of Janáček’s haunting song-cycle (Hyperion, 8/19), here comes another account of The...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2019

CHARLTON Cloud and Mirrors

Composer, performer, educator – Alan Charlton (1970-2018) packed a great deal into his all-too brief life, and this release (mostly...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2019

GOUNOD St Cecilia Mass BIZET Te Deum

Recorded as long ago as 1996, this reissue makes catalogue sense: a double-up of sacred works by major 19th-century French...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2019

Rarities of Piano music at Schloss vor Husum 2018

Not all the ‘Great Composers’ are excluded from the annual Husum Festival. But any works by them chosen to be...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2019

Norma Fisher at the BBC, Vol 2

Until last spring Norma Fisher was known to me mainly as one of the most sought-after piano teachers in the...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2019

Robert Casadesus: The Complete French Columbia Recordings

In the wake of Sony Classical’s massively comprehensive box-set devoted to Robert Casadesus’s American Columbia recordings (6/19), APR fleshes out...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. 24 Preludes (Gugnin)

The controversy surrounding the 1979 publication of Solomon Volkov’s Testimony, four years after the death of Dmitry Shostakovich in Moscow,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2019

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 20. Minuets (Volodos)

Is it possible to make Schubert too beautiful? To put it another way: where is the line between naturally beautiful...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2019

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