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In the Midst of Life

Early music needs another British vocal ensemble like a meerkat needs car insurance. It’s a field that’s already standing-room only,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015

Mélodies françaises on Poems by Paul Verlaine

Philippe Jaroussky clearly subscribes to the habit-forming appeal of French art song, having titled his first recorded recital ‘Opium’, and...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2015

Good Friday in Jerusalem

It would be difficult to find a group more steeped in serious musicological research than Cappella Romana, and their discs...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2015

Iestyn Davies: Flow My Tears

Launched with 2014’s ‘The Art of Melancholy’ (Hyperion, 7/14), the partnership between young lutenist Thomas Dunford and countertenor Iestyn Davies...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015

Flight of Angels

The music of Spain’s Golden Age has always been near to Harry Christophers’s heart, a commitment that shines through in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2015

Carolyn Sampson: Fleurs

Amid a clutch of floral favourites – say, Purcell’s ‘Sweeter than roses’ (in Britten’s flamboyant arrangement), Schumann’s ‘Jasminenstrauch’ and Fauré’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2015

STRAUSS Complete Songs Vol 7

Unlike the earlier mix-and-match releases in Hyperion’s Strauss song survey, this disc consists entirely of less popular works, opening with...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2015

RICHTER Requiem. Sinfonia. De profundis

The Moravian-born composer Franz Xaver Richter (1709 89) is one of those ‘pre-Classical’ figures whose music is written about more...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2015

RACHMANINOV Vespers

The commercial recording history of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil stretches back only 50 years, with at least three outstanding versions having...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2015

MAYR Jacob a Labano fugiens (Jacob’s Flight from Laban)

Simon Mayr (1763 1845) had a dependability that kept him immune to the inspirational ups and downs and empty note-spinning...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2015

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