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RAMEAU Les Fêtes de Polymnie

Like Les fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour (Glossa, 12/14), Les fêtes de Polymnie is an opera-ballet. But whereas the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2015

KRAUS Arias and Overtures

‘That man has a noble style, the like of which I have found in no one else,’ remarked Gluck of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2015

KEISER Pomona

Reinhard Keiser’s formative musical training was in Leipzig, similar to the slightly younger cluster of Graupner, Fasch, Heinichen and Telemann....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015

BRIAN The Tigers

Is it really 32 years since the one – and only – performance of Brian’s vibrant, surreal anti-war opera The...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015

R & C SCHUMANN Piano Works

Robert and Clara Schumann join forces on this disc, and in one case their emotional closeness triggers a possible musical...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2015

HANDEL Music for Queen Caroline

The most amiable of Britain’s early Hanoverian monarchs seems to have been Caroline of Ansbach (1683-1737), wife (and cousin) of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2015

EŠENVALDS Northern Lights and other Choral Works

Born in 1977, Latvian Eriks Ešenvalds is principally known as a composer of choral music. This album commemorates a two-year...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2015

PIAZZOLLA Escualo. Histoire du Tango. Angel Suite

Piazzolla’s music is remarkably open to arrangement, its vibrant tango nuevo rhythms and clean sonorities transferring convincingly to most instruments....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015

STENHAMMAR String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

The Stenhammars conclude the first-ever complete cycle of their namesake’s quartets on disc with characteristically energetic and well-explored readings of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015

MACHAUT The Dart of Love

This second Machaut recording by The Orlando Consort for Hyperion seems to me a return to their best form. Much...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2015

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