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Chanson d'avril: French Chansons and Melodies

The American soprano Nicole Cabell’s recording career has been a curious one. After winning the BBC Cardiff Singer of the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2014

Ave Maria: Virgin Mary in the Northern Lights

This is an imaginative programme of settings of Marian texts by Nordic composers, including Anonymous (the Ave maris stella from...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014

The Bells of Dawn: Russian Sacred and Folk Songs

Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s new disc explores two potent strands of Russia’s musical fabric, folksong and Orthodox Church anthems, separated in this...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014

VIVALDI Pietà: Sacred Works for Alto

The title ‘Pietà’ alludes to the Ospedale della Pietà, the girls’ orphanage in Venice with which Vivaldi was associated on...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014

VERDI Lieder

Verdi’s songs are worth searching out by those who already know the operas. Ramón Vargas, who has sung a dozen...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2014

SCHNEIDER-TRNAVSKÝ Songs from the Song Cycles

As I had never heard of this composer before and as my knowledge of Slovak poetry is as non-existent as...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014

NOVÁK Testamentum. Fugae Vergiliane

Jan Novák was born in Moravia in 1921 and, after many problems with the Communist authorities and travels abroad that...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/2014

MAHLER Rückert-Lieder. Kindertotenlieder

Previous ABC releases from this popular Australian bass-baritone have included a Mozart album which shows off the lighter side of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2014

LAITMAN Holocaust 1944

Numerous composers have attempted to render the Holocaust (or at least some aspect of it) in music, often without the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014

HOWELLS Stabat Mater

It is now 20 years since Howells’s substantial setting of the Stabat mater was recorded by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2014

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