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GEE Mouthpieces

Music that uses the mouth as an instrument has evolved apace over the past century and Erin Gee clearly has...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2014

FERRANDINI Cantatas

Until recently the Munich-based Venetian composer Giovanni Ferrandini (1709 91) has probably been known to only a few attentive observers...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014

FAURÉ Mélodies. La Bonne Chanson RAVEL Trois Poèmes

These two artist-produced French song recitals illustrate the pluses and minuses of artistic control. Now in her mid 60s, Barbara...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014

DYRUD Out of Darkness

Håkon Gullvåg’s startlingly macabre cover work (The Resurrection) provides a powerful indication that the music will be innovative and strong,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2014

CALDARA Requiem

A hitherto little-known manuscript now in the Czech National Library contains a Missa defunctorum by Caldara that comprises the first...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014

JS BACH Cantatas Nos 72, 81, 155 & 156

Except for the exquisite Sinfonia that opens No 156, none of these Epiphany cantatas is familiar fare. But with Bach...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2014

JS BACH Cantatas BWV Nos 70; 9; 182

For this latest instalment in his personal selection of Bach cantatas – one for each Sunday and liturgical feast –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2014

JS BACH Easter Oratorio

Quibbling with the completeness of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Cantata Pilgrimage is a touch academic, as almost all the sacred...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2014

Juan Diego Flórez: L'Amour

This recital from Juan Diego Flórez marks a new departure into different areas of 19th-century French repertoire. But the voice,...

Reviewed in issue 06/2014

Maria Friederike Schöder: Amor

Though her career is still in the emerging stage, with plenty of credits in smaller-city opera houses and major-city early-music...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014

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