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MEYERBEER Songs Vol 2
Released some five years after the first volume, this second Naxos disc of Meyerbeer songs presents settings of poetry in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2017
HANDEL Tu fedel? Tu costante? Italian cantatas
A prime selling point here is the premiere recording of an early version of the soprano cantata Tu fedel? Tu...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2017
GESUALDO Madrigals
Along with the Fifth Book of Madrigals issued alongside it, Gesualdo’s Sixth Book charts the culmination of his stylistic development,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2017
Christmas Cantatas
One of many useful ways in which the late Peter Williams (the final version of whose monumentum pro JSB was...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2017
DOVE For an Unknown Soldier
Jonathan Dove might be expected to come up with a pragmatic response in commemorating the First World War, and so...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2017
CHERUBINI; PLANTADE Requiems
Hervé Niquet brings together two posthumous tributes to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette for the first time in a recording made...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2017
FINZI; BAX; IRELAND Choral Music
The Anglican choral tradition is shaped and defined as much by its buildings as by its choirs. Whether it’s St...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2017
JS BACH Cantatas BWV 12, 106, 150 &131
Expectations were understandably high at the prospect of Vox Luminis graduating into the sphere of the young Bach cutting his...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2017
CPE BACH Der Frühling
The ever-inquisitive Café Zimmermann present a cross-section of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s least-known vocal and instrumental chamber music that conveys...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2017
Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden
Opera galas are strange beasts, but this one from Baden Baden in 2016 (the booklet doesn’t give us the exact...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2017
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
Which are the right active loudspeakers for you?
Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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