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HANDEL Timotheus

This is a recording which ticks so many worthwhile boxes that it’s difficult to know where to begin. It’s a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2013

The Phoenix Rising

Stile Antico’s ‘The Phoenix Rising’ is both a celebration and a cautionary tale. It’s a celebration of the breadth and...

Reviewed in issue 09/2013

The Lost City: Lamentations Through the Ages

The lost city is Jerusalem, and it is the Lamentations of Jeremiah that provides the text of the nine pieces...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013

R. Strauss Tone Poems

The playing of the Berlin Philharmonic on both the 1973 and 1983 sets is as glorious as ever; its virtuosity...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Art Nouveau: Songs by Strauss, Zemlinsky, Ravel, Respighi

No, not Angela Gheorghiu. This is her Romanian compatriot Teodora, who launched her musical career as a flautist, became a...

Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 09/2013

STANFORD Songs of the Sea VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Songs of Travel

It makes an ideal coupling linking Stanford’s breezy settings of Henry Newbolt in Songs of the Sea and Songs of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2013

SCHNEIDER Winter Morning Walks

Without reading the booklet-notes by composer Maria Schneider and soprano Dawn Upshaw, you know that life beyond tragedy is celebrated...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2013

ROTH Sometime I Sing

Specially composed for Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski, Alec Roth’s song-cycle My Lute and I harnesses language and music in...

Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 09/2013

RORE Missa Doulce mémoire. Missa a note negre

Cipriano de Rore is best known today as one of the finest exponents of the madrigal but his sacred output...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2013

Vivit! Choral works by Reger and Tobias

This compilation juxtaposes a selection of short choral pieces by two late Romantics, Max Reger and Rudolf Tobias, born in...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2013

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