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HAYDN The Creation (Janowski)

This set preserves a live concert of Haydn’s oratorio masterpiece from a couple of summers ago. On its own terms,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2024

HANDEL 'Freedom - Oratorio Arias' (Oscar Verhaar)

When I was an undergraduate, discussions about Handel’s nationality raged, before attention turned to his sexuality. Both debates are now...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024

FAURÉ La Bonne Chanson. L'Horizon chimérique. Ballade. Mélodies (Stéphane Degout)

To mark this year’s centenary of Fauré’s death, Stéphane Degout and Alain Planès survey five of his song-cycles in this...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2024

JS BACH; TELEMANN 'Himmelfahrt'

Bach composed four cantatas for Ascension Day in Leipzig, and here are two of them complemented by the premiere recording...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2024

JS BACH 'A Life in Music Vol 1'

I hail the advent of a new miniseries from Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants, having already found their previous...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024

Melody Lin: Virtuoso Harpsichord Music

This is a debut release for harpsichordist Melody Lin, showcasing her impressive finger dexterity in a selection of the instrument’s...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2024

Yuja Wang: The Vienna Recital

At first, the programme for this recital might seem haphazard, with two excerpts from Iberia separated by Scriabin and Kapustin...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024

Piers Lane: Russian Variations

Here, on the face of it, is an enticing quartet of works that have in common Russian composers and/or Russian...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2024

REGER 'Lieder von Johannes Brahms' (Rudolf Buchbinder)

In 1904 the firm of Simrock approached Max Reger with the offer of an exclusive contract. Reger was clearly flattered...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2024

MUFFAT Componimenti musicali per il cembalo (Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya)

Gottlieb Muffat was Georg Muffat’s son, lesser known today than his father but a formidable musician and composer in his...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2024

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