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JANAČEK The Cunning Little Vixen (Rattle)

Recordings of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Sinfonietta represent major milestones in Simon Rattle’s early discography: the latter with...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2020

HANDEL Saul (Cummings. McGegan)

For all his pomposity and eccentricities, the lordly Charles Jennens was Handel’s most rewarding collaborator. The relationship between two men...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2020

Voices of Angels

There’s a post-Nietzschean agenda to this programme, according to Paul Griffiths’s booklet note, but neither Gubaidulina nor Schnittke, for example,...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2020

Jonas Kaufmann: Selige Stunde - Romantic Songs

Jonas Kaufmann is nothing if not versatile. Just a few months ago I was reviewing his new recording of Otello...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2020

Portraits de La Folie

The figure of ‘La Folie’, announced here in an impulsive air from André Campra’s Les fêtes vénitiennes, was a perennial...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2020

Flax & Fire: Songs of Devotion

A former Oxford choral scholar – though he hardly sounds like one – Stuart Jackson has made his mark on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2020

After Silence

Anniversary releases carry a certain pressure – a need to define, represent, embody. Do you gather up your greatest hits...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2020

TARKIAINEN The Earth, Spring's Daughter. Saivo

Outi Tarkiainen is a composer of rare moral conviction and geographical attachment, with a longing for the far north that...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2020

SHEPPARD Media Vita in Morte Sumus

John Sheppard’s monumental antiphon Media vita in morte sumus (‘In the midst of life we are in death’) is one...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2020

ROSSINI Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (Rizzo)

Rossini was 24 and recently arrived in Naples when, early in 1816, he was commissioned to provide the music for...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2020

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