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Bella dama: Baroque Cantatas

This is a promising sign, not only from the Italian countertenor Raffaele Pé but also the recently founded band Spiritato!,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014

WOLF Complete Songs Vol 7

Hugo Wolf’s Spanisches Liederbuch has been recorded by many of the great Wolf singers. But this youngish, lesser-known foursome have...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014

VIVALDI Cantatas

Michael Talbot judges that Vivaldi’s cantatas accompanied only by basso continuo ‘constitute the least innovatory portion of his output, but...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014

VENEZIANO La Santissima Trinità

Gaetano Veneziano (1665-1715) trained in Naples and taught for most of his life at the city’s Conservatorio di S Maria...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014

JC SMITH The Seasons

Ah yes: John Christopher Smith, geboren Johann Christoph Schmidt, whom Handel invited to London in 1716 to look after his...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2014

PURCELL Serenading Songs & Grounds

Purcell’s music is above all memorably tuneful in a new way for English music. But apart from its prolific melody,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2014

POULENC Intégrale des mélodies pour voix et piano

Among French singers, François Le Roux has been one of the foremost in revealing the delights and diversity of Poulenc’s...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014

MAHLER Orchestral Songs

With Thomas Quasthoff retired, many would nominate Christian Gerhaher as today’s pre-eminent German Lieder baritone (the more controversial Goerne is...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2014

LARCHER What Becomes. A Padmore Cycle

Coming to this disc as a Mark Padmore admirer – rather than as someone who has followed the recorded trajectory...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014

GESUALDO Reponsories 1611

Gesualdo’s Responsories for Holy Week need no introduction by now; not so La Compagnia del Madrigale, a recently formed ensemble,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2014

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