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JS BACH Solo Cello Suites (Gerhardt)

Like many cellists, Alban Gerhardt says he has been wary of recording the Bach Suites before he was good and...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2019

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concertos (Lisiecki)

This is the third account I’ve had of Mendelssohn’s concertos in as many months and, from the off, the young...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2019

JS BACH Violin Concertos (Isabelle Faust)

That Isabelle Faust and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin have let this Bach violin concertos album run to nearly...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Fischer)

I honestly can’t remember hearing a performance of this extraordinary symphony that was so plainly in love with its ethos,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2019

Si vous vouliez un jour

Note that the simple, elegant air de cour would eventually form part of the basis for French Baroque opera. And...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2019

Perpetual Twilight

The first thing that strikes you about ‘Perpetual Twilight’ is the sheer number and quality of young tenors. Soloist after...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2019

ORFF Carmina Burana - Live from the Forbidden City

DG celebrates its 120th anniversary by signing another ensemble and conductor from the East who have been developing increasing links...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2019

Marie Perbost: Une jeunesse à Paris

Marie Perbost takes her own Parisian upbringing as the starting point for her debut album in Harmonia Mundi’s ‘harmonia nova’...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2019

Ibn Battuta - The Traveler of Islam, 1304‑1377 (Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall)

‘Travel first leaves you voiceless, before it turns you into a storyteller’, according to Shams ad-Din Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2019

Desires: A Song of Songs Collection

Founded just three years ago, Suzi Digby’s ORA Singers have already got six recordings under their belt and established a...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2019

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