From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
If you are about to step into a warm bath, put one of these on the player and submerse your January body in a fantasy world that never changes.
What Reynaldo Hahn and Hans Gál have in common, other than a one-syllable name, is a reluctance ever to be tempted beyond the musical language they were born into in their youth….
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