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'Amore Siciliano’

Things start ordinarily enough. Cappella Mediterranea under the direction of Leonardo García Alarcón create a mournful sound world, with recorders...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2024

STRADELLA 'Motetti'

Few composers lived such an exciting and repeatedly life-threatening existence as Stradella. Forced to flee Rome following a series of...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 07/2024

STANFORD 'Orchestral Songs’

Hard on the heels of the premiere recording of Stanford’s delightful ‘romantic comic opera’ Shamus O’Brien (5/24) comes a comparably...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Andrè Schuen)

Every encounter with the chilly depths of Schubert’s Winterreise is like a new beginning, according to Andrè Schuen in the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024

SCHOENBERG 'Expressionist Music'

In their joint booklet note for this release, soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn make a passionate case for...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2024

PITFIELD 'The Songs of Thomas Pitfield' (James Gilchrist)

Born in Bolton and still fondly remembered in his native Lancashire, Thomas Pitfield (1903‑99) could not have wished for more...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024

MOZART Complete Masses Vol 3

The third instalment in Naxos’s survey of Mozart’s Masses alights on three works from the mid-1770s, two of which have...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2024

MESSIAEN Chants de terre et de ciel. Poèmes pour Mi (Barbara Hannigan)

By the time he was 30, in 1938, Olivier Messiaen had already impressed as a gifted composer of instrumental music...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2024

HEINICHEN 'German Sacred Cantatas'

Heinichen was a pupil at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche of Bach’s predecessors Schelle and Kuhnau. He practiced law briefly until quitting in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2024

DEBUSSY Ariettes oubliées; STRAUSS Four Last Songs (Siobhan Stagg)

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has seemed to put its best foot forward for the debut release on its own label...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024

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