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Showing posts with label record review. Show all posts
Wednesday, 20 May 2026

Richness & imagination: the all-male ensemble De Profundis continues its exploration of Morales with two masses based on L’homme armé

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Cristóbal de Morales: Missa L’homme armé a4 , Magnificat secundi toni ,  Missa L’homme armé a5 ; De Profundis, Robert Hollingworth; CORO Rev...
Monday, 22 December 2025

Well-upholstered & rather different: On Christmas Night from London Choral Sinfonia & Michael Waldron on Orchid Classics

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On Christmas Night :  Percy Fletcher, Jim Clements, Howard Blake, Harold Darke, Alec Rowley, Holst, Adolph Adam, Iain Farrington, Owain Park...
Tuesday, 18 November 2025

A real radio opera: Claire Booth as a pianist labouring under the absurdity of life in Stalin's Russia in Joe Cutler's Sonata for Broken Fingers

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J oe Cutler: Sonata for Broken Fingers ; Claire Booth, Stephen Richardson, Christopher Lemmings, James Cleverton, Lucy Schaufer, BCMG, Sian ...
Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Thinking about sound: Grieg's Lyric Pieces on a modern piano from Alexander Ullmann & on historic pianos with unequal temperament from Ziad Kreidy

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Grieg:  Lyric Pieces, Op. 71 ,  Moods, Op. 73, Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46 , transcriptions of  Songs, Op. 41  - Alexander Ullmann - Rubicon Cla...
Monday, 22 September 2025

A very fresh, a summer album: Hummel & Bertini from Sestetto Classico on MDG

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Hummel: Quintet, Bertini: Grand Sextuor; Sestetto Classico; MDG Reviewed by Andreas Rey (22 September 2025) Two large-scale chamber works fr...
Tuesday, 25 February 2025

Vivid detail & white-hot performances: Gavin Higgins' Horn Concerto & The Faerie Bride now on disc

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Gavin Higgins: Horn Concerto , Fanfare, Air and Flourishes , The Faerie Bride ; Ben Goldscheider, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Roderick Williams...
Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach is somewhat undeservedly squashed between his brothers, but this disc shows his music well worth exploring

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Johann Christoph Friedrich: Six Sonatas "für das Clavier mit Begleitung einer Flöte oder Violine" ; Ashley Solomon, Jochewed Schwa...
Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Creating a personal world: Ethel Smyth's earliest orchestral work alongside contemporary pieces by inti figgis-vizueta and Ying Wang

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Lauter!  Ethel Smyth, inti figgis-vizueta;Ying Wang; ensemble reflektor, Holly Hyun Choe; Solaire Records Reviewed 14 January 2025 Ethel Smy...
Monday, 13 January 2025

The complete Walton songs: there aren't that many but Siân Dicker, Kyrstal Tunnicliffe, Saki Kato certainly make us understand why they are all worthy of attention

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William Walton: Complete Song Collection ;  Siân Dicker, Krystal Tunnicliffe, Saki Kato; DELPHIAN Reviewed 12 January 2025 Shedding a light...
Wednesday, 13 November 2024

By some strange piece of magic, it works: Dancing Queen from Asya Fateyeva & Lautten Compagney Berlin mixes Rameau with the songs of ABBA

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Dancing Queen: Rameau meets ABBA ; Asya Faeyeva, Lautten Compagney Berlin; Deustsche Harmonia Mundi Reviewed 12 November 2024 An unlikely ma...
Friday, 6 September 2024

Discovering Imogen: A relatively underrated British composer, Imogen Holst is put centre stage in this brand-new recording on NMC

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Discovering Imogen - Imogen Holst: Overture Persephone, Suite in F Allegro assai for strings, Suite for Strings, Variations on ‘Loth to Dep...
Thursday, 5 September 2024

Exquisite vocal lines & imaginative storytelling: Harry Christophers & The Sixteen focus on Stanford's secular choral music in Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs

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Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs ; The Sixteen; Harry Christophers; CORO Reviewed 22 July 2024 by Tony Coooper Punctuating Sir C...
Friday, 2 August 2024

More than entertainment: Oliver Webber and the Monteverdi String Band's The Madrigal Reimagined

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The Madrigal Reimagined : Claudio Merulo, Johann Nauwach, Claudio Monteverdi, Cipriano de Rore, Cristofano Malvezzi, Giulio Caccini, Emilio ...
Tuesday, 23 July 2024

A vividly realised recording which does full justice to the complexity and vivid imagination of this music: rediscovering music by Latvian-American composer Gundaris Pone

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Gundaris Pone:  La Serenissima, seven Venetian portraits for orchestra,  American Portraits , Avanti! ; Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Guntis K...
Wednesday, 17 July 2024

A sound world that is at once distinctive, appealing and engaging: Maria Faust's Mass of Mary on Estonian Record Productions

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Maria Faust: Mass of Mary; Collegium Musicale, Helina Kuljus, Lili Kirikal, Oliver Povel, Maria Faust, Kirstjan Kungla, Indrek Vau, Andres K...
Wednesday, 13 March 2024

Little short of a revelation: Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset explore Wagner's influences with In the Shadows

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In the Shadows: Auber, Bellini, Berlioz, Halévy, Méhul, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Spontini, Weber, Wagner; Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques, C...
Thursday, 29 February 2024

Music that is vividly alive & vibrant, yet requires concentration & dedication to listen to: Anselm McDonnell's Kraina

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Anselm McDonnell: Kraina ; Joshua Ellicott, Laura Sinnerton, Dermot Dunne, Rebecca Murphy, Cahal Masterson, Elizabeth Hilliard, Alan Smale, ...
Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Knowing no boundaries: on Circus Dinograd contemporary & period performers move between styles & genres without embarrassment

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Circus Dinograd ; traditional, Jean-Luc Ponty, Purcell, Ravel, Jarmo Ramponen, David Faber, Hilary Summers, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross,...
Monday, 11 December 2023

The glories of Roman polychoral music after Palestrina explored by I Fagiolini with Benevoli's Missa Tu es Petrus for four choirs

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Orazio Benevoli: Missa Tu es Petrus ; Palestrina; Bonifazio Graziani; I Fagiolini, the City Musick, Robert Hollingworth; Coro Reviewed 11 De...
Friday, 13 October 2023

A lovely artist portrait: Dobrinka Tabakova's orchestral works featured on a new disc from the Hallé & Delyana Lazarova

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Dobrinka Tabakova: Orpheus’ Comet, Concerto for Viola and Strings, Earth Suite, Concerto for Cello and Strings ; Maxim Rysanov, Guy Johnston...