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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
JS BACH ‘Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern’
Post-war recordings of Bach cantatas from Germany are a richer repository than is generally known, outside those on the major...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2024
YVAIN Yes!
You might already know the title number of Maurice Yvain’s Yes! from Susan Graham’s treasurable French operetta album (Erato, 5/02);...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2024
NIELSEN Maskarade (Engel)
Nielsen’s second opera hasn’t always travelled well outside its native land. The ‘sung in German’ label on this newcomer rang...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2024
MASSENET Werther (Vashegyi)
Some will doubtless raise eyebrows at Bru Zane’s inclusion of Werther in their ongoing re-evaluation of the lesser-known French repertory....
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2024
DE LA GUERRE Céphale et Procris (van Mechelen)
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s Céphale et Procris (March 1694) was the first and only full-scale tragédie en musique to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2024
HANDEL Poro, re delle Indie (Angioloni)
Poro (King’s Theatre, February 1731) was modelled on Metastasio’s Alessandro nell’Indie, which had just recently been first set to music...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2024
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
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