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BRAUNFELS Orchestral Works Vol 4

According to Michael Haas’s invaluable Forbidden Music (Yale UP: 2013), Walter Braunfels chose mental rather than physical emigration after the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2019

BRAHMS Complete Symphonies (Zehetmair)

Brahms visited Switzerland frequently. In August 1856 he met the music publisher Jakob Melchior Rieter-Biedermann on the first of 14...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019

ADAMS Become Desert

Edgard Varèse, Peter Sculthorpe, Michael Finnissy, Steve Reich – several composers have written music that has drawn inspiration from the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2019

BACH FAMILY Cantatas (Meunier)

Bach’s pair of first cousins once-removed, Johann Christoph and Michael, have long been acknowledged as key influences in Johann Sebastian’s...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2019

Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann (Isata Kanneh-Mason)

Whatever this disc’s shortcomings – and they are few – it ranks among the most charming and engaging debuts I...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2019

JANÁCEK The diary of one who disappeared

Nicky Spence’s last solo Hyperion outing, on the final volume of the label’s Strauss Lieder series, revealed how his voice...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2019

Towards the Light

Rautavaara wrote the Credo for his Missa a cappella in 1972, adding the five movements to make a full Ordinary...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019

Sandrine Piau: Si J'ai Aimé

This attractive disc finds Sandrine Piau and Le Concert de la Loge, with their conductor Julien Chauvin, exploring French orchestral...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019

Iberia: Spanish and Portuguese polyphony from the Renaissance to today

Joël Suhubiette’s name was previously familiar to me as the director of Ensemble Jaques Moderne, and his career as singer...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2019

An American Song Album (Melody & Bradley Moore)

Melody Moore’s ‘An American Song Album’ feels personal and custom-made for her ample lirico spinto instrument. And that’s always a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019

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