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Celestial Dawn

Until recently girls had little choice when it came to top-level choristerships. The news that both St John’s, Cambridge, and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2022

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Gerald Finley)

After Winterreise (4/14) and Schwanengesang (A/19), Gerald Finley and Julius Drake arrive at Die schöne Müllerin. As with the previous...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022

SCHUBERT Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe (Samuel Hasselhorn)

After an impressive debut album devoted to Schumann (11/20), the young German baritone Samuel Hasselhorn turns to Schubert for his...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022

SANDONI Cantatas & Instrumental works

A search reveals that the name of Pietro (or Pier) Giuseppe Sandoni has never appeared in Gramophone before, so a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2022

RAVEL Cantates Pour Le Prix de Rome

What a delicious surprise this has turned out to be. I’ll wager only a tiny minority of true Ravel aficionados...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2022

PETTERSSON Barfotasånger

This is the fourth complete recording of Pettersson’s 24 Barefoot Songs for voice and piano (1943 c1949), the first to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022

PÄRT; POULENC; STRAVINSKY Choral and Orchestral Works

This is an imaginative and colourful juxtaposition of sacred music for choir and orchestra, different in style and intention as...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2022

MONTEVERDI 'Monteverdi Memories'

Katharina Bäuml and her stylish period wind ensemble are back. Recent recordings have been all-German affairs, but now Capella de...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2022

MONDONVILLE Grands Motets

Three years after moving to Paris, the violinist Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville began his long association with the Concert Spirituel...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2022

LISZT 'Der du von dem Himmel bist'

Like Britten and Shostakovich a century later, Liszt tended to use fewer notes the older he got. Denouncing his early...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2022

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