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YSAŸE Six Solo Violin Sonatas Tai Murray vn Harmonia Mundi HMU90 7569 ‘Everything is thrown into the melting pot – Debussy, jazz, folk – resulting in a disc that makes me want to hear Murray playing all of them, so coherently has she pulled them together’
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BRAHMS Schicksalslied. Alto Rhapsody, etc Collegium Vocale, Ghent; Champs-Elysées Orchestra / Philippe Herreweghe PHI LPH003 ‘Herreweghe allows the music to evolve with a wonderful feeling of spaciousness in which Brahms’s textures are beautifully revealed’
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BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem Soloists; Monteverdi Choir; Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique / John Eliot Gardiner SDG SDG706 ‘Gardiner returns to the Requiem with a root-and-branch rethink of the work’s very sound’
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‘TUNE THY MUSICKE TO THY HART’ Stile Antico; Fretwork Harmonia Mundi HMU80 7554 ‘Stile Antico’s sleek tuning and supple attention to words bring a carefully plotted span (over 120 years) of sacred styles into our living rooms with rare success’
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DVD MOZART Die Zauber löte Soloists; Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan / Roland Böer; William Kentridge dir Opus Arte OA1066D; OABD7099D ‘Don’t miss this visually enchanting and thoughtprovoking treat’
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Reissue SCHUBERT String Quartets, etc Busch Quartet Regis RRC3012 ‘What makes this particular reading so special is a combination of tautness and warmth that allows the stringplaying to sound as intimate as the human voice in song’
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ORCHESTRAL
Bruckner’s Ninth from Norrington in Stuttgart; Barenboim and Boulez play Liszt in Berlin; Stravinsky from Fischer in Budapest
CHAMBER
Xuefei Yang transcribes Bach for the guitar; Carolin Widmann turns to Schubert; Ulf Wallin’s Schumann violin sonatas
INSTRUMENTAL
Richard Tunnicliffe’s Bach Cello Suites; HJ Lim embarks on a Beethoven sonata cycle; David Greilsammer mixes old and new
VOCAL
The choral music of Bo Hansson; Werner Güra takes a Schubertian journey; ‘Being Beauteous’ with Anu Komsi
OPERA
A new recording for Heggie’s Dead Man Walking; Mozart on DVD and Blu-ray; Janowitz stars in Böhm’s 1976 Ariadne
BOOKS
Eight contemporary pianists in conversation with Caroline Benser; Placing Bernstein’s musical theatre works in context
REPLAY
A Living Presence ‘Collector’s Edition’ from Mercury; Toscanini and Busch on the podium; Busch the quartet-leader in Schubert
THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE TO…
Through 10 diverse recordings, Philip Clark celebrates the composers, arrangers and performers who have dared to make their own transcriptions of Beethoven’s music
THE GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION
Richard Wigmore follows Mozart to Munich and compares the available recordings of the myriad existing versions of the composer’s first operatic masterpiece, Idomeneo
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