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SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Klaus Florian Vogt)

Heldentenors have a surprisingly respectable recorded history in the most introspective of Schubert lieder, and Klaus Florian Vogt has the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2024

Angela Gheorghiu: A Te, Puccini

The discovery of a lost Puccini song might prompt shrugs from those who don’t know the composer actually wrote any....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2024

MOZART Requiem (Jansons)

Mariss Jansons recorded the Requiem in concert in Amsterdam a little under six years before this Munich performance, with two...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024

LASSUS 'The Alchemist' Vol 1

For lovers of 16th-century music there can be few nuts harder to crack than the Magnificat settings of Lassus. There...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2024

M HAYDN Die Ährenleserin

'Haydn has no talent for musical theatre’, wrote Leopold Mozart about his Salzburg colleague Michael Haydn. Wolfgang Brunner and the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024

HANDEL Theodora (Cohen)

‘More prescient and pertinent with every performance’ is how Ruth Smith describes Theodora in a typically astute booklet note for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024

A BONONCINI Cantate per Contralto con Violini

This recording was made in the monastery of St Florian, near Linz in Austria, where Alois Mühlbacher was a choirboy....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2024

Déjà-rêvé: Dialogues Across Time (Klavierduo Neeb)

Ever since Bartók’s 1937 Sonata, the medium of two pianos and percussion has exerted a compelling fascination on contemporary composers,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024

VILLA-LOBOS 'Do Brazil' (Wilhem Latchoumia)

The La Dolce Volta label’s high-end production values have always befitted Wilhem Latchoumia’s intelligent musicianship and cultivated pianism. Collectors familiar...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024

Diaries: Schumann (Tiffany Poon)

Hong Kong-born New York-based Tiffany Poon is one of the piano world’s most enterprising vloggers and YouTube denizens, as well...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024

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