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GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice (1762 Vienna version. Bates)

This is the first version of Gluck’s opera, composed for Vienna in 1762, complete on one CD: not quite penny...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2019

GERVAIS Hypermnestre (Vashegyi)

If Stephen Fry is planning a third volume of Greek legends, to follow Mythos and Heroes, he might balk at...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2019

FARINELLI Ann Hallenberg. Cecilia Bartoli

What would one give to time travel and hear the 18th century’s most deified, mythified castrato, who in London provoked...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2019

Jonas Kaufmann: Wien

If you’re watching the calories, stop reading now. This evocative collection of Viennese sweetmeats, of wine, women, song and Sachertorte,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019

A Spanish Nativity

Released in time for Christmas, Stile Antico’s latest offering explores the Spanish Golden Age from Morales to Victoria. The centrepiece...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2019

Baroque Gender Stories (Vivica Genaux; Lawrence Zazzo)

Early 18th-century Italian opera companies often cast female voices in male roles, and sometimes castratos took female roles according to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2019

WOHLHAUSER L’amour est un duperie – l’amour n’est pas une symbiose

His may be an unfamiliar name but the Swiss composer René Wohlhauser (b1954) has gained a wide reputation for his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2019

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Song of Love; Time and Space

Early in his career Ralph Vaughan Williams was much taken with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s 1881 collection of 100 sonnets, The...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2019

STROZZI "Virtuosa of Venice" (Fieri Consort)

Barbara Strozzi (1619 77) published eight collections of chamber vocal music – almost all secular and most of them extant...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2019

SCHÜTZ The Christmas Story

This attractive all-Schütz programme places his Christmas Story alongside other seasonal German- and Latin-texted works, culminating in the very Venetian-sounding...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2019

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