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Dolce Vita

With this new disc, Jonas Kaufmann offers something like a transalpine equivalent to his disc of the German repertoire popularised...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016

SCHOENBERG Kol Nidre SHOSTAKOVICH Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti

Schoenberg’s 1938 setting of the Jewish prayer of atonement certainly succeeds in its aim to ‘vitriolise out the cello sentimentality...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2016

REGER Orchestral Songs

The title for this disc is something of a misnomer, since none of Reger’s original works for voice and orchestra...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016

MUHLY/TEITUR Confessions

A song describing a cat stuck up a tree, another about the smell of a printer, and (even more bizarrely)...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2016

JUON Lieder

Paul Juon (1872-1940) was born in Russia into a German-Swiss expat family and studied at the Moscow Conservatory, though from...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016

VAN GILSE Ein Lebenmesse

Completed in 1904, when Jan van Gilse was only 23, Eine Lebensmesse was the work that put him on the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016

GESUALDO Terzo Libro di Madrigali

Ten years ago, when I reviewed the first three books of Gesualdo’s madrigals in the recording from the Gesualdo Consort,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2016

DURUFLÉ Requiem

Whether through pragmatism, perfectionism or a combination of both, Maurice Duruflé produced three different versions of his Requiem. The 1947...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2016

BRAUNFELS Orchestral Songs Vol 2

The second instalment of Hansjörg Albrecht’s Braunfels survey improves markedly on its predecessor (8/16). First, it consists entirely of original...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016

JS BACH; TELEMANN Sacred Cantatas

Two of Bach’s most sublime solo cantatas sung by a singer of Philippe Jaroussky’s lyrical beauty and poise is without...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2016

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