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STRAUSS Lieder
In his introduction to the booklet Thomas Hampson says that he wanted to mark Strauss’s 150th anniversary by offering a...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014
SHOSTAKOVICH Six Romances. Suite on Poems by Michelangelo
Shostakovich’s songs continue to lag behind the rest of his output in terms of their representation on recordings and in...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2014
RACHMANINOV Vespers
It seems these days as though every self-respecting chamber choir is keen to record Rachmaninov’s monumental a cappella masterpiece as...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2014
A Purcell Collection
Voces8 here make use of their intermediate size – neither a choir nor strictly a one-to-a part ensemble – to...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
A & G MAHLER Lieder
Glasgow-based Linn Records continues to do well by its Scottish artists. As anybody who has heard Karen Cargill in 19th-century...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014
HANDEL Duetti da Camera
Last year, the soprano Robert Invernizzi joined forces with the mighty mezzo Sonia Prina for a disc of Baroque duetti...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2014
DESENCLOS Requiem. POULENC Litanies à la Vierge noire
About two-thirds of this excellent disc is devoted to music by Alfred Desenclos, about whom not much seems to be...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014
COOPER Silver Threads
Jacob Cooper has a simple and logical explanation for why his song-cycle Silver Threads is set for electronics and voice,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014
BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem
A fine-sounding, sensitively paced German Requiem with good, fairly chaste choral singing and an especially impressive baritone in Thomas E...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014
JS BACH St Matthew Passion
Here is a recording drawn from performances in the Herkulessaal in Munich, where Karl Richter recorded his versions in 1958...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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