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Simon Wallfisch: French Songs

Multitalented Simon Wallfisch is known to many for his appearances as ‘The Singing Cellist’, though here he joins pianist Edward...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2017

Camerata Silesia sings Szymański

In Britain, Paweł Szymański’s name began to appear a few decades ago, seeming to be a natural successor to such...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2017

STRAVINSKY The Soldier's Tale. Fanfare for a New Theatre

The Soldier’s Tale had a troubled wartime genesis from which emerged music of bite and swagger and a new kind...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2017

SCHUBERT Song Cycles

A visually rather low grade reissue – no Blu ray magic broom here – of three Vienna studio films made...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2017

SAINT-SAËNS Mélodies

This disc signifies a dual artistic emergence. As a composer of mélodies, Saint-Saëns comes out from behind the shadow of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2017

PEERSON A Treatie of Humane Love

Martin Peerson’s ‘Mottects or Grave Chamber Musique’ (1630) contains five-part songs on poems from Caecilia by Sir Fulke Greville (the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2017

MOZART Great Mass in C minor

Just two months after the appearance of Masaaki Suzuki’s C minor Mass, here is another that takes an interesting editorial...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2017

MENDELSSOHN Elias

Of Mendelssohn’s works only the Scottish and Italian symphonies had a longer, more fraught gestation than Elijah. The composer wanted...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017

Forgotten Liszt

It’s difficult to escape the air of academicism surrounding this disc, which was programmed by the musicologist-conductor Michael Vitalino while...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2017

ELGAR The Spirit of England BAX In Memoriam

Here’s another welcome helping of choral Elgar courtesy of Mark Elder and his Hallé forces, this time in the context...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017

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