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POULENC La voix humaine

Poulenc and his estate never let others do it (officially) until now but the composer himself could never resist accompanying...

Reviewed in issue 07/2013

MYSLIVEČEK Medonte

It is the unenviable fate of any composer who was active in the 1770s to be compared to Mozart. In...

Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 07/2013

BRITTEN Peter Grimes

Even a decade ago a truly modern production of a British opera by a Brit team and with many Brits...

Reviewed in issue 07/2013

BELLINI Norma

The impossible masterpieces of the 19th century supposedly have no challenges that can’t be solved by a hard look at...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2013

RICHAFORT Requiem

It is heartening that the King’s Singers should devote themselves to a work as comparatively obscure as Jean Richafort’s Requiem....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2013

Songs of Love

The distinctive voice of Anna Leese – a gleaming soprano, like a pure beam of light – has become a...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2013

Deutsche Motette

A concerto for choir by any other name, Richard Strauss’s Deutsche Motette has a good claim to being the hardest...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2013

SAARIAHO La Passion de Simone

You probably need to care deeply about Simone Weil in advance in order to get the most from Kaija Saariaho’s...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2013

RASKATOV Obikhod. Praise

The two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union have not been propitious for Russian music but Alexander Raskatov...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2013

The Complete Quilter Songbook Volume 1

Roger Quilter (1877-1953) was the ailing son whose brothers in a large and prosperous family all had careers either in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2013

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