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TRACKS 1-4Hear GREAT TENORS OF TODAY excerpts from discs by four great tenors: cover-star Jonas Kaufmann and three of his contemporaries, Rolando ViIIazón, Joseph Calleja and Juan Diego FIórez.

Funny how some musicians find fame. Philippe Quint has been attracting very good notices in this magazine and elsewhere for some time, but it was losing his violin in a New York taxi and then giving a free concert as a thank you to the driver who returned it that has made him famous (at least in...

6MY HEART ALONE' Angelika Kirchsclilager mez Simon Keenlyside bar Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria / Alfred Eschwé Sony Classical

These Godowsky works have a reputation, well deserved, for being among the most difficult in the piano literature. Not that this has ever daunted MarcAndré Hamelin (it's not even his first recording of this repertoire) and he throws off the technical complexities seemingly with delight. It's...

Sir Cohn Davis has long championed this most popular of Tippett's works and this latest recording finds him at his most committed. The London Symphony Orchestra throw themselves into it and, with characterful soloists, the impact is awesome. As with every great performance of this oratorio, it...

Just another throwing together of (reasonably) bigname stars in a chamber setting? There's no "just" about any of this. Lisa Batiashvili, Lawrence Power and chums work together as a crack unit, utterly of one mind and relishing a rather heavenly programme. This is a disc I suspect I will return...