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NOWOWIEJSKI Folk Paintings. King of the Winds (Perłowski)

Feliks Nowowiejski was a Polish composer, born in Wartenburg (now Barczewo) in East Prussia in 1877. Having studied composition with...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2018

NEUKOMM Mass. Requiem (Malgoire)

Sigismund Neukomm (1778-1858) studied for seven years with Haydn in Vienna. From 1809 he was based in Paris, albeit with...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2018

MONTEVERDI Scherzi musicale (Chierici)

For Claudio Monteverdi 1607 was a devastating year. February saw the premiere of his first opera, Orfeo, and then just...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2018

MARENZIO L’amoroso e crudo stile

If Monteverdi was the midwife of the Italian madrigal – ushering it into the new musical world of the Baroque...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2018

HAYDN The Creation (Orozco-Estrada)

Haydn’s vision of a benignly ordered universe is in many ways a no-fail work. This new version, seemingly recorded at...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2018

VIVALDI Nulla in mundo pax sincera HANDEL Gloria (Grace Davidson)

Even in this golden age of ‘early music’ sopranos, Grace Davidson is outstanding for her seraphic purity and evenness of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2018

HANDEL St John Passion. Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder

An anonymous Passion oratorio based on the Gospel of St John survives in Berlin and its aria texts are by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2018

FAURÉ Mirages (Bettina Smith)

Bettina Smith turns to four of Fauré’s song-cycles for the latest instalment of her survey of fin de siècle mélodies...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018

DVOŘÁK The Complete Moravian Duets

Genuine charm is a rare quality, though this delightful disc possesses it in spades. It gives us Dvořák’s Moravian Duets...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018

BUXTEHUDE Abendmusiken

Some Buxtehude discs give us vocal music, some give us instrumental. This one offers both, a tribute to the Sunday-evening...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018

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