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The Last Rose of Summer: Folksongs from the British Isles (The Queen's Six)

The King’s Singers cast a long shadow, and it looms particularly dark over this latest release by The Queen’s Six....

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2019

Kaiser Maximilian I

In a year packed with major anniversaries – Leonardo, Queen Victoria, Gandhi, Napoleon – it may have slipped your attention...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2019

I and Silence: Women’s Voices in American Song

Subtitled ‘Women’s Voices in American Song’, Marta Fontanals-Simmons’s hugely ambitious debut solo album takes a broad approach to its own...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2019

VASKS Lugsana/Prayer

Prayer for a Mother (1978) is the earliest work by Vasks on this disc and provides not only an arresting...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2019

TABAKOVA Kynance Cove. On the South Downs

Released in conjunction with BBC Radio 3, this generously filled disc presents a broad and attractive showcase of works by...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2019

Myrtle & Rose

To hear songs by Schumann – either Schumann – with a fortepiano is perhaps a rarer occurrence than one would...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2019

MYSLIVEČEK Adamo ed Eve

An almost exact contemporary of Haydn, the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček was a significant figure in the development of the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2019

HONEGGER Jeanne d'Arcau Bûcher (Denève)

Honegger’s masterpiece has never been short of recordings or fully committed interpreters, and it deserves both, even if English listeners...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019

Songs & Sonnets - Songs In English and German from the Reign of Queen Victoria

‘I found I could get along better with the German than the English words’, confided Hubert Parry in a diary...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2019

HANDEL Cantate 03

Contrasto Armonico’s slow-burning Handel cantatas project explores often-performed Italian cantate con stromenti in context alongside neglected chamber cantatas for only...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2019

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