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Bach's Roots. Early Influences on the Young Master

Investigations on record of Bach’s immediate central-German precursors have often relied on content from composers actually related to him, especially...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024

Donna Barbara - Songs of Barbara Strozzi

Barbara Strozzi accompanied herself on the lute at various Venetian academies, so there is something to be said for present-day...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2024

STRADELLA Ester (Vinkour)

Ester, liberatrice del popolo Ebreo was probably written in the early 1670s for one of Rome’s confraternities that sponsored Lenten...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2024

STANFORD Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs

These artists have already served notice of their commitment to this exquisitely wrought repertoire with an uncommonly beautiful recording (10/23)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2024

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Julian Prégardien)

A child of the 18th century, Schubert’s first interpreter, the baritone Johann Michael Vogl, would routinely subject melodic lines to...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2024

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN Carousel

It’s the best kind of logic – follow Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first Broadway show Oklahoma! with their second. This again...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2024

PARRY I Was Glad

Although Parry is often thought of as a composer of Anglican church music, he did in fact write very little...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2024

HAYDN Seven Last Words (Helen Kearns)

I didn’t ‘get’ this touched-up version of the Seven Last Words when I first heard it courtesy of the Henschel...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2024

GESUALDO Silenzio mio: Fourth Book of Madrigals

I warmly welcome this new addition to our collective understanding of the Prince of Venosa. No longer headlining as a...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2024

FAURÉ Requiem GOUNOD Messe de Clovis (Niquet

Conductors who record Fauré’s Requiem are likely to do so at least twice. Mysteries are few, vocal lines have no...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2024

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